In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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.

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

We're still family-owned, which keeps life a whole lot simpler. When my wife and kids and I decide to make a business move, we don't have to ask Wall Street about it.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

When I visit a country, I like to experience local food.

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.