There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.

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.

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.

But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

Humour is completed by an audience.

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.