It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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 have the capacity to do the work.Find the willpower to begin work.

God is a symbol of imaginative power

You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.' It was probably important to her.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.