We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

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.

Everything happened to find the balance of Life.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.