Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Peace is just an illusion created by those in power

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.