An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

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.

To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

My mother is a walking miracle.

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.