The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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.

Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.