There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.