Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

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 ought to know the Creator.

You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself.

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.