Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

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.

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.