It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while ensuring white southerners that Black men would still pay the ultimate price.