The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.