Legal Lynching

Famous quotes containing the words legal and/or lynching:

    “No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    “... lynching was ... a woman’s issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with race.”
    —Paula Giddings (b. 1948)