The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Quotes

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Quotes

"I don't think it's as simple as Luke says," Barney broke in. "There are a lot of places in this country, and I bet there always have been, where if you're all alone in what you think, and you say what you think, you get treated like a leper or criminal." (Barney Roth, Chapter 2, page 10.)

"Mr. Moore was wondering whether anyone in the social studies department had a large photograph of Martin Luther King, but he dropped the idea. It would look phony - the only photograph on the wall without himself in it. Maybe he could say he'd been sick that day. No, too curious a coincidence. Well, he must invite more black speakers. There was certainly an imbalance on that wall. It would take a while to make it ten percent black, but that was a sound goal." (Narrator, Chapter 4, page 23.)

"Now listen...I have...
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