The following quotes are taken from Charlotta Bass's book Forty Years: Memoirs from the Pages of a Newspaper, published in 1960, with exceptions noted.

"For forty years I have been working as editor and publisher of the oldest Negro newspaper in the West....I have fought not only for my people. I have fought and will continue to fight unceasingly for the rights and privileges of all people who are oppressed and who are denied their just share of the world's goods that their labor produces."

"I will not retire nor will I retreat, not one inch, so long as God gives me vision to see what is happening and strength to fight for the things I know are right."

"We who fight on the side of the people believe the great enemies of mankind are poverty and disease, inequality and war. We fight for a better life for all people, free from fear, free from war, from intolerance and discrimination."

"In public, in private, wherever I have heard the challenge, the call for a greater effort, the need for further struggle....I have continued to this day to work and fight and struggle toward the light of a better day."

"As I think back I know this is the only kind of life: In serving one's fellowman one serves himself best. I would not have it any other way."

"Unity of the entire community could win any good cause."

"We know that no victory is ever won through fear."

"There is a strange truth about suppression. It seldom works."
"On the Sidewalk," California Eagle, December 1, 1938.