After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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.

Had I known how sweet they wereI would have saved more of these memories

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

I think it's fun to love-to-hate people.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.