We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.