John Howard Griffin Quotes
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
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 intentions.
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.
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.
All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
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.
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.
The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.