Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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.

A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

God cannot save them from fools.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.