Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

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.

Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure!

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

My own career is a case study for what I believe in.