Quotes by John Howard Griffin

About John Howard Griffin:

John Howard Griffin is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959. He wrote about this experience in his 1961 book Black Like Me.
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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 th...

John Howard Griffin

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 wil...

John Howard Griffin

They don't deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white..., they only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to st...

John Howard Griffin

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

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Howard Griffin
  • DescriptionAmerican race activist
  • BornJune 16, 1920
  • DiedSeptember 9, 1980
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author; Novelist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsPacem In Terris Award