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 because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?
Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up - John Howard Griffin
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
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…
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
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 …
He who is less than just is less than man. - John Howard Griffin
He who is less than just is less than man.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. - John Howard Griffin
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
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