Today is the centenary of writer John Howard Griffin, born June 16 1920. Thanks to for asking me to reflect on his life of radical empathy in this time of #BlackLivesMatter.
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“One hopes,” he wrote, “that if one acts from a thirst for justice and suffers the consequences, then others who share one’s thirst may be spared the terror of disesteem and persecution.”
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Thanks for this. I read it at my Jesuit high school but didn’t know the context.
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