I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

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.

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

I'm the kind of guy who looks to be in first at the end of the season.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.