John Howard Griffin Quotes.

1. "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?"
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

2. "Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up"
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

3. "He who is less than just is less than man."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

4. "How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?"
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

5. "It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

6. "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."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

7. "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."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

8. "This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

9. "A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

10. "If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused."
- John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me