once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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.

We see eternity through a microscopic window of time.

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.