Strength is the outcome of need.

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.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

Do something you love and people will love you for it.

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.