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.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Don’t fear change

Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.

Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you—a stick.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Without error there can be no brilliancy

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to this day. Born in meager surroundings in rural South Carolina.

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.