86 Quotes by John Howard Griffin

...[C]ulture-learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions-is a prison.

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up.

If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.

He who is less than just is less than man.

Didn’t Shakespeare say something about ‘every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up’? He knew his religious bigots.

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.

Fear dims even the sunlight.

We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.

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