“ Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty John Howard Griffin
“ In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all. John Howard Griffin
“ I traveled from city to city in those days, and the view from within the ghettos was terrible and terrifying. While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would… John Howard Griffin
“ Some whites, who had never really understood, were offended by this sudden death of their role as the good white leading the poor black out of the jungle. Many of these were among the saddest people o… John Howard Griffin
“ It was now pointed out that the black male child, even in a black school using white textbooks, could early come to the conclusion that all the heroes in history were white men. Furthermore, with the… John Howard Griffin
“ When the riot controls had been put into effect, and a nervous white population was waiting, it took little to set it off. In Wichita, a few white youths drove down into the black area and simply fire… John Howard Griffin
“ Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who w… John Howard Griffin
“ They don't deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white..., they only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of… John Howard Griffin
“ A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good. John Howard Griffin
“ If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given. John Howard Griffin
“ How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one. John Howard Griffin
“ Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this separation may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they trul… John Howard Griffin
“ Now you take dark Negroes like you, Mr. Griffin, and me, he went on. We're old Uncle Toms to our people, no matter how much education and morals we've got. No, you have to be almost a mulatto, have yo… John Howard Griffin
“ The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all. John Howard Griffin
