Children of Crisis Quotes

“They don’t seem to be getting tired, the way we thought. Maybe it’ll have to be a race, and I hope we win. Some people sometimes think we won’t, and maybe I believe them, but not for too long.”
― Robert Coles, Children of Crisis

“She is not alone in her courage. The South is filled with an underground of sly liberals in the midst of situations hardly likely to support their efforts.”
― Robert Coles, Children of Crisis

“The bestiality I have seen in the South cannot be attributed only to its psychotic and ignorant people. Once and for all, in the face of what we have seen this century, we must all know that the animal in us can be elaborately rationalized in a society until an act of murder is seen as self-defense and dynamited houses become evidence of moral courage. Nor is the confused, damaged South the only region of this country in need of that particular knowledge.”
― Robert Coles, Children of Crisis