For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Whoever changes one life, changes the whole world.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.

Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends.

I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.