The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

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.

Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.

Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.