I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
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You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
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.
I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
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.
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
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.
I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'
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