I hope, or I could not live.

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.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

The doc­trine of the Church should be proven, not announced. There­fore show that the Scrip­tures teach these things.