The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

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.

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.

It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

A sword held in vengeance only leads to grief.

There is no substitute for experience.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

I got born in the wrong family.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

Our friends, the enemy.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.