The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

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.

Not kill us, " Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?

English literature is a flying fish.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.