“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.” MayChildrenCountryHappensAbleMotherParentFieldsLaborOur ChildrenSlaveryHorribleLive LifeBelovedYour ChildrenBreakupNurseWetMonstrousLynching Author:Toni Morrison
“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
“In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.” PeopleEvidenceSlaveryTradeSlaveInstinctSymbolsRepresentationLynchingSlave Trade Author:Bryan Stevenson
“The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.” GivingMadeWarCountryValuesReligiousSlaverySouthSectionsSegregationBeltsLynchingGreat Value Author:John Shelby Spong
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.” YearsTodayRacePracticeImpossibleHappeningsYears AgoSlaveryContemporaryExecutionPenaltiesHauntingDeath PenaltyLynchingEerie Author:Shane Claiborne
“America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.” MenSelfAmericaHateBlackDoubtCrimeTaughtSlaveryMaskSelf-doubtLynchingSelf Hate Author:Malcolm X