Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

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.

Restyle your life forever by empowering yourself to incite the greatness in you

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.