It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

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.

Weak people pretend they're perfect. Courageous people acknowledge and confront their weaknesses.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

You can't walk in faith and fear at the same time.

I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.

The real food is not being advertised.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.