In the year 2001, 11,541 people were killed or seriously injured in hate crimes. In 1991 there were 4,558 victims, 8,049 in 1997 and 9,100 people attacked in 2003. Every year the numbers spiral away from hope. Every hour, someone commits a hate crime. Everyday, eight blacks, three whites, three gays, three Jews and one Latino, become victims of hate violence.

Information is a powerful tool but reporting is voluntary. Notably, Alabama, Hawaii and seven of America's 100 most populous cities do not routinely collect bias crime statistics. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the actual number of hate-related crimes each year may be closer to 50,000.

It could happen on a city street, in an abandoned field, in the frozen food aisle, in the girls' locker room, in your backyard. It often begins with name-calling, bullying. Then, sooner or later, the voice can become a fist, or a gun or bomb or plane.

Here are 4 places in our country where different equaled dead.