Famous quotes containing the words you are, lynching and/or negroes:
“If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“You know, when these New Negroes have their convention—that is going to be the chairman of the Committee on Unending Agitation. Race, race, race!... Damn, even the N double A C P takes a holiday sometimes!”
—Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)