Trial Quotes

“animus, the rise of white nationalism, and the frequent failure of our legal system to provide fair”
― Richard North Patterson, Trial

“the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.”
― Richard North Patterson, Trial

“He was no longer that boy; she was no longer that girl. But both still lived within them, she understood, and they were meeting again, deepened by all that had happened to them since, the realization of all they had missed.”
― Richard North Patterson, Trial

“The federal government practiced redlining—disqualifying Black neighborhoods for mortgages backed by the government. It would only ensure property covered by restrictive covenants. It cut off Black areas by building highways around them, which made it easier for white people to run away to the suburbs. The neighborhoods left behind have a fraction of white wealth and an oversupply of substandard housing, ill health, infant mortality, and lousy schools.”
― Richard North Patterson, Trial

“If you can’t stop time, make it vanish.”
― Richard North Patterson, Trial

“Nothing will change until people with the power really try to imagine the lives of other folks beyond their own direct experience.”
― Richard North Patterson, Trial