M.G. Wells Quotes
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
