Law Quote by John Howard Griffin

“This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.”

John Howard Griffin

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He who is less than just is less than man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“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…

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

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

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

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