All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

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.

hate blows a bubble of despair intohugeness world system universe and bang-fear buries a tomorrow under woeand up comes yesterday most green and young

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.