Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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.

History was a way to live extra lives, to cheat the limits of flesh and blood, to roll the rock back from the tomb and free the resurrected dead.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.