To live in a world where men do not...

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

- John Howard Griffin

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Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness.

- John Howard Griffin

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

- John Howard Griffin

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

- John Howard Griffin

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

- John Howard Griffin

However it might go, I should have no regrets. If I should be reduced to begging in the street, then I should enjoy the feel of pavement beneath my feet and the odors of asphalt and automobile exhausts. Good and bad fortune were equally attractive when viewed in such a context. Hunger was as interesting as satiety. A life without sight was as interesting as life with sight. Who was to say different? Society? The bulk of humanity?They were living their first lives, cautiously aware that someday they would die. They had everything to lose. They could not take the risks. But I had been through death, had my insides burned out by it twice.I was living a second life, freed of those cautious awarenesses.I had nothing to lose. I could take all the risks.

- John Howard Griffin

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

- John Howard Griffin

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