Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be 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.

By loving you, I learn everything because your soul contains the entire universe.

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.