A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

Virtue knows no color line.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

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.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

Dreams are divine thoughts.

Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top!

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome.