Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

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.

Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?

I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

When I’m reaching an audience, I feel it.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance