We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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.

Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.

Instead of physicists teaching physics, physicists should go home and see what physics applies to their home.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

Everything to do with time is hideous.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.