I write to cover a frame 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.

It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.