'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

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.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

99.9% of the information you get about Africa is wrong

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.