White South

Famous quotes containing the words white south, white and/or south:

    “... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)

    “Soft are the hands of Love,
    but what soft hands
    clutched at the thorny ground,
    scratched like a small white ferret
    or foraging whippet or hound.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)