In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.

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 takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

Load every rift with ore.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.