Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Translation is at best an echo.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.

I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen