If the world does not please you, you can change it.

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.

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky.

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's space. There has to be a separate space for women.

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.