“And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.” PeopleMenYearsDoneFactsMovingYoungFoundBlackDeterminationRiversMoving ForwardConcreteFloatingMississippiLynchingEmmett Till Author:Fred Shuttlesworth
“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.” WorldMindMadeNamesBlackWhiteRaceClaimsRaisesLabelsTake MeForeheadsInferiorityMustacheLynchingWhite RaceBlack Race Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.” PeopleKindDoneAmericaBlackPayViolenceTroubleCrimeSlaveKillingAll KindsDestroyedBlack PeopleEarthquakesLynching Author:Muhammad Ali
“In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.” PeopleIfsSelfTogetherPurposeFightingBlackChanceWhiteOpinionBreakViolenceCrimeCapableResistanceBlack PeopleSoleAmerican HistoryBreak OutLynchingFighting BackHeinous Crimes Author:Assata Shakur
“Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.” IdeasDoneFactsBlackClaimsSlaveryFolksLiberalismCrowJim CrowLynchingKu Klux Klan Author:E.W. Jackson