(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

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.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Life is a beautiful struggle, but life is worth living

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.