I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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.

Education is the ultimate power of life. A better education gives you better power.

What a blessed bliss to be alive?

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.

I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.

When you're a little different than others, it takes a little more time to fit in. If you really want to be there, there are no ingredients you need other than effort, perseverance and teamwork.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.