Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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.

Be organized in maximizing time

I like you like this. The way it should be. Safe in my arms.

Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.

God’s wisdom makes Christians different from other people.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

It seems no matter what I read I think 'this is not Harry Potter.'

Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.