In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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.

Mean wordsOnce upon a time, I loved you But I will neverI swear.

The communication between the brain and the heart is a two-way dialogue.

Friends end. But family will stay when your friendship ends

For me, Europe consists of three things: sovereignty, unity and democracy.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.