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“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while ensuring white southerners that black men would still pay the ultimate price.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Lynchings aren't a vile,inhuman footnote of white history. Lynchings occur every day on the streets of Western countries.

Every time the neck of a black man,woman or child is pinned to the ground by the knee of a police officer, every time a black man,woman or child is chased down in the street and shot simply for being there, every time a black man woman or child is judged purely because of colour,every time a white individual crosses the street to avoid walking past a black man,woman or child, avoids sitting beside a black man woman or child on public transport or says or does nothing when a black man,woman or child is being subjected to abuse is, in itself, a modern day lynching.”
― R.Patient

“Who said I want to go to war? If I do, it ain't the same war the President wants to go to. No, sir, I been hanging on a rope in Alabama too long.”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

“A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The reality is that racial lynchings were a frequent and normal feature of life in the South. This unique method of murder was a devastating form of terrorism that imposed a constant threat to all black people. The white authority structure did not only tolerate or encourage these killings but used the fear of lynchings to control and oppress black people.â€�


--“Why White America Must Learn the History of Lynchingâ€�, Skeptical Inquirer (December 2020)”
― Guy P. Harrison

“Lynchings in the past have significantly shaped race relations in the present. A killing such as George Floyd’s lands on black people with a much heavier psychological weight because of lynching’s legacy. Too many white people fail to recognize this, and that needs to change. The hurt is too great, the simmering fear and anger too volatile, to bury forever. All Americans who would seek or demand a nation that is fairer to every citizen, less racist, and more peaceful have a responsibility to know this history in detail. â€� Confronting this ugliness would be difficult for everyone, of course, but it should be attempted. Ignorance and denial certainly have not worked, because this American wound still bleeds.â€�

-- “Why White America Must Learn the History of Lynchingâ€�, Skeptical Inquirer (December 2020)”
― Guy P. Harrison

“Since V-J Day more than nine Negro veterans have been lynched and not one of the lynchers brought to justice…In every field of crime, though some escape, criminals are caught–every crime but one. For the crime of race hate and lynching there has never been a conviction in the history of the United States…To me, a layman, an agency committed to defending the lives of its citizens should spend less time finding legal reasons for not acting, and more time acting on behalf of human justice.”
― Oliver W. Harrington, Why I Left America and Other Essays

“ciudades misteriosas llenas de gente
que lincha negros y pisa cucarachas

strange cities full of people
who lynch negroes and step on cockroaches

(de "Freedom Now")”
― Nancy Morejón, Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry