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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
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
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
— John Howard Griffin
Fear dims even the sunlight.
— John Howard Griffin
Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.
— David Hanson
All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
— John Howard Griffin
He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.
— John Howard Griffin
Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.
— John Howard Griffin
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
— John Howard Griffin
I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.
— John Howard Griffin
Didn't Shakespeare say something about 'every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up'? He knew his religious bigots.
— John Howard Griffin
They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others
— John Howard Griffin
He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.
— John Howard Griffin
It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.
— John Howard Griffin
I thought I had more time, but sometimes tomorrow never comes and you're only left with the memories of yesterdays.
— Brittainy C. Cherry
him dumfounded as he chanted the Gregorian
— John Howard Griffin
Now you go into oblivion.
— John Howard Griffin
We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
— John Howard Griffin
We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it.
— John Howard Griffin
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
— Mason Cooley
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
— John Howard Griffin
Existence nullified by men; reaffirmed by nature.
— John Howard Griffin
measure up - disillusion us by showing
— John Howard Griffin
Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up
— John Howard Griffin
He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.
— John Howard Griffin
Government is essentially the negation of liberty.
— Ludwig Von Mises
How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?
— John Howard Griffin
If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.
— John Howard Griffin
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
— John Howard Griffin
Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who is less than just is less than man.
— John Howard Griffin
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
— John Howard Griffin
I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society.
— John Howard Griffin