States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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.

That night I woke up to a strange fact

Faded is my heart.... Faded is my dream....Faded they may seem.... Never I scream!

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Death is the great equalizer

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.