Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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.

A daily practice of how you shall live in heaven, here on earth, is a good qualification plan to get to heaven

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it life just doesn't taste good.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.