The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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.

There is nothing more important and precious on earth than the opportunity to love and appreciate.

I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!

I love learning new techniques.

Animals look at people the way people look at people that might mug them.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The body and the soul know how to play In that dark world where gods have lost their way.