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

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.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.