Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

- John Howard Griffin

When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human m…

- John Howard Griffin

He who is less than just is less than man.

- John Howard Griffin

The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destro…

- John Howard Griffin

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as …

- John Howard Griffin

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our inten…

- John Howard Griffin

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

- John Howard Griffin

The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panick…

- John Howard Griffin