It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

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.

People remain same in photographs only

You must live a life of love to live an effective life

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.