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You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

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.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

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.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.