The Boy from Tiger Bay Quotes

“John was not overly sentimental about the past. Time moves on and with it comes change. Although no longer cowed by the reaction of people on hearing his name, he was painfully aware of what some of them said. There would always be those determined not be swayed by the facts, and others who would try to find an excuse for them.”
― Ceri Jackson, The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice

“Mansfield looked at his tally, the number of times Stephen had told the police he was not there. It totalled 303. My God, Mansfield thought to himself, in words reminiscent of his mother’s warning to him over forty years before. If they’re doing this on tape, God knows what they are doing off it.”
― Ceri Jackson, The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice

“You can commit injustice by doing nothing.”
― Ceri Jackson, The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice

“Sharpton had made a powerful opponent in the British media. ‘Anytime you start to shake the root of a system,’ he reasoned, ‘then you’re going to have a discredit campaign.”
― Ceri Jackson, The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice