The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

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 appetite grows for what it feeds on.

It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

No man was born empty.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.