"When I was a child,
blacks stepped off the sidewalk
when whites walked down it
-- and that's all gone.
So it gives you the awareness, at least,
if not the hope,
that similar things could happen at other levels of
society.
The races are off in their own corners,
and they have no...almost no contact with each other.
And they don't really like each other;
they don't sympathize with each other;
they don't know --
they don't understand what people are saying to them
cross the racial barriers;
and nobody is trying to help anybody interpret
anything.
Nobody ever sits down and says,
We're all human beings;
there must be some ground of sympathy here
that we could explore together.
Nobody does this."
The Rev. Austin Ford, Founder of Emmaus House
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Tribute in Emory Magazine (Fall 1995)
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Excerpts from Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Public Radio Broadcasting)
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