Grief Quote by John Howard Griffin

He who is less than just is less than man.

— John Howard Griffin

“We led strange, hidden lives. We were advocating one thing: that this country rid itself of the racism that prevented some citizens from living…

— John Howard Griffin

“I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into…

— John Howard Griffin

The Negro. The South. These are the details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men…

— John Howard Griffin

“All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their children, of…

— John Howard Griffin

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within the imprisoning…

— John Howard Griffin

“Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the…

— John Howard Griffin

“We need a conversion of morals," the elderly man said. "Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some…

— John Howard Griffin

“Some wanted to know where they could find girls, wanted us to get Negro girls for them. We learned to spot these from the…

— John Howard Griffin

“God is invoked … and He is invoked against the God of the spirit, of intelligence and love - excluding and hating this God.…

— John Howard Griffin

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

— John Howard Griffin