There Goes My Everything Quotes

“I know a few Negroes I respect and admire, for they got what they wanted by working for it.” But most blacks were not quite so good, Ledford asserted. “I’ve lost my respect for them, except the few I told you about because they want to force themselves on us…. Why doesn’t the Negro leave us alone and mind his own business and quit thinking he’s too good for our laws.” The laws Ledford referred to were the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.”
― Jason Sokol, There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975