Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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.

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.