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  • If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

    Lynching   Choices   Flow  
    Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
  • This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.3, Book Tree
  • I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.

  • What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'

    Hate   Dark   Government  
  • Lynching is color line murder.

    Lynching   Color   Lines  
  • The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  • Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  • In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

    Children   Thinking   Gun  
    Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.
  • All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

    H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

  • I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

    Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.231, University of Chicago Press
  • I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

  • When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

    Mean   Race   Lynching  
    Source: medium.com
  • So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.

    Two   White   Lynching  
    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

    War   Lynching   Names  
    Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.368, Univ of California Press
  • Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

    Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.545, Mango Media Inc.
  • You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

    Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.2, Bantam
  • You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

    Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta
  • The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

    Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.96, American Foundation for the Blind
  • You are the sum total of your choices.

    Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

  • We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

    Girl   Sleep   Night  
    "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement, October 31, 2005.
  • The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

    Cutting   Lynching   Ears  
    "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.
  • The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from. Now we seem intent on lynching the barman for letting us get drunk and attacking the Government for letting us get a hangover.

  • When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

    Son   Men   Lynching  
  • Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  • We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

  • You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.

  • We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

  • Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"

    Country   Lynching   Land  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
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