86 Quotes by John Howard Griffin

A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.

I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love.""And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice.""At base, we spend years studying the same thing.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him; how to hold our own and raise ourselves in his esteem without for one moment letting him think he had any God-given rights that we did not also have.

...[A] lot of them, without even understanding the cause, just give up. They take what they can-mostly in pleasure,and they make the grand gesture, the wild gesture, because what have they got to lose if they do die in a car wreck or a knife fight or something else equally stupid.