“That evening there were police outside the building in which I spoke, and in the air the rising tension of race that is peculiar to the South. It had been rumored that some of the local citizenry were saying that I should be run out of town, and that one of the sheriffs agreed, saying, "Sure, he ought to be run out! It's bad enough to call Christ a bastard. But when he calls him a nigger, he's gone too far!"... ...Nevertheless, I remember with pleasure the courtesy and kindness of many of the students and faculty at Chapel Hill and their lack of agreement with the anti-Negro elements of the town. There I began to learn at the University of North Carolina how hard it is to be a white liberal in the South.”
Quote by Langston Hughes
Work
Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
“I kept every letter - only to be reminded of the wrong words can cause (to the heart).”
Source: The Songs of Eagles: Poetry by Eagle Soul Man
“Why do poets think They can change the world? The only life I can save Is my own.”
Source: War Dances
“Some day people will put faith in poets, who saw things centuries ago in perfect clarity.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
Source: Prison of Paradise
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned
Source: Mystical Tides
