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lynching

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1. lynching - Noun

2. lynching - Verb

Meaning

of Lynch

Source: Webster's dictionary

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

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law. Jack Kevorkian

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. Vernon A. Walters

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down. Rosa Parks

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. Carter Woodson

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. Jacques Vergès

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