9 Movie Quotes about Lynching (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 24, 2026

Memorable quotes about lynching, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I'm against the war in Vietnam. I've said on occasions in the press, I don't think black people should go to Vietnam and fight Asian, yellow people who've never lynched us, raped us, called us niggers, deprived us of freedom, justice, equality...

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

2 Boy, we all stand to get rich now. -Or lynched.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

3 I'm sorry I stopped them from lynching you.

Gary Cooper as Cole Harden in The Westerner (1940)

4 Anyway, I'm sticking south... Even if I'm lynched for it.

Quote from Destination Freedom

5 I had read of lynchings before and had been deeply stirred.

Quote from Destination Freedom

6 You see, there was a lot of lynchings down in Willicoochee, Georgia where I come from, when I was a boy.

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

7 'And if any nigger so much as look at you, I'll lynch his _.'

Wesley Snipes as Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever

8 Hey, what's up? Looks like a lynching party. -Any visitors? -Not a soul.

Margaret Sheridan as Nikki Nicholson in The Thing from Another World

9 There was a lynching last night. He saved my life.

Joan Crawford as Vienna in Johnny Guitar (1954)