Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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.

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.

Don't wait till tomorrow to achieve your goals, live in the present and look forward to the future. Forget yesterday and start living today.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?

Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.