I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Romania are more Portuguese than German.

Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.