I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

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.

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.