I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Words physically have power to bring things into existence.

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.