The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

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.

As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.

She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young

The time of neutrality is over, this is the time of intervention where we can learn to grab the bull by the horns.

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.