Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

For everything there is a reason. Just go and search it in the big mess!

The devil is the initiator of persecution

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.