What a man most wishes to hide, revise, and un-say, is there in merciless relief.John Howard Griffin
I learned within the very depths of myself to look first to the human creature’s individual characteristics. For it is upon these, not upon his color, that he will stand or fall. John Howard Griffin
If a white man became a Negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make?John Howard Griffin
He who is less than just is less than man.John Howard Griffin
I saw that the problem was not just that of a Negro's revolt in search of his true identity. It was a universal problem. John Howard Griffin
I saw that the problem of the place of the Negro in America was not the deepest problem.John Howard Griffin
The real problem is that of the human heart, of the human spirit, of the human capacity to triumph.John Howard Griffin
If only we could establish once and for all that the color of the skin is meaningless!John Howard Griffin
You see ten things and don’t understand one.John Howard Griffin
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred.John Howard Griffin
The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him.John Howard Griffin
When all men are equal and all have the same reference points of law and order, then, truth can emerge againJohn Howard Griffin