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

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

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.

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.

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

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

One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.