4 Quotes by Hank Thomas

One minute I was about to be lynched in Anniston, and then a few years later I find myself on a ship going to Vietnam to serve as a medic.

If we had not done that, there's no doubt we would have been slaughtered.

Nashville was the cavalry. When all of us on our bus were injured and suffered tremendously with smoke inhalation, and when we couldn't go on any further, it was the folks from Nashville who picked up.

We want to forget all the bad things that happened to us. We have to do a better job about talking about our history.