So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

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.

Travel on the right paths for journey of a life time.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.