Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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.

They asked me why I loved him, and I said: “Because he doesn’t remember how to love himself.

Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

I am an optimist, I always hope for the best.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Success is buried on the other side of frustration; unfortunately some people don't do what it takes to get to the other side.

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.