This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

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.

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.

What someone else thinks of you is not what you have to think of yourself.

In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!