The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

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.

Violence is the power of the state

There are some things that are never meant to be said aloud.

My gut is telling me you're innocent." His gaze went to the gun and then back to her face. "Relatively innocent.

We have forged the type of bonds that only battle brings.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

When you're amongst people doing well it's so gratifying and spurs you to just keep investing in your job.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.