You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

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.

WHOLE WORLD IS A SCHOOL FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO LEARN.

Your customers are responsible for your company’s reason for existing.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.