When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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.

Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.