Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

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.

It may be difficult, but thru sorrow, it’s important to find happiness in our memories and be very thankful to have them!

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.