Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

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.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.