Burden Quotes

“If no one takes a stand, a stand won't be taken.”
― Courtney Hargrave, Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South

“America would love to put all the blame on the Ku Klux Klan,” he’d tell them, cutting a path through the saplings. “But what creates this atmosphere that allows the Klan to become bold?”
― Courtney Hargrave, Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South

“Racism, he often told his parishioners, is a strange organism. A living thing. You can trim the branch, you can try to cut it out by the root, you can bury it deep in the ground and deprive it of light. But when the conditions are right, it blooms.”
― courtney hargrave, Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South