Witness Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

“He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held the only…

— Wyatt Michael

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on Black inferiority;”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“They'd close to two hours till dark and the expriest said so. They lay under the boardlike hide of a dead ox and listened…

— Cormac McCarthy

“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the Negroes took…

— Carlos Bulosan

“One law prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court, and carefully defined “negro” as anyone who had one nonwhite grandparent.”

— Gail Collins

“You dont get your black ass away from this fire I’ll kill you graveyard dead. He looked to where Glanton sat. Glanton watched him.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping…

— John Grisham

“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not call out,…

— James Baldwin

“the world is much stranger than we know or can say. And I know how you think, or how you like to think, but…

— Donna Tartt

“I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already tried to…

— Victor Hugo

“She held the paper in her hand for a long time, trying to follow the reasoning by which that thin ragged boy had become…

— Ann Petry