Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up”
“Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?”
“It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.”
“He who is less than just is less than man.”
“I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.”
“Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. 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.”
“Fear dims even the sunlight.”
“This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.”
“How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?”
“for so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man’s good intentions toward his fellow man.”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, frustration, emotion, idealism, social-injustice, fear, hypocrisy, us-history, self-discipline, racial-discrimination, despair, self-control, hate, depression, graciousness, 1959
