The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

The world of books is my fantasy.

Love is the most powerful gift we have to offer.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed.

A trade is better then service.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.