"Intruder in the Dust" Quotes
In "Intruder in the Dust," William Faulkner explores racial injustice and moral courage in the American South through the story of a black man wrongfully accused of murder and the community's struggle for truth and justice.
fiction | 247 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Because if they are not, then we are not either.
Because it's a thing that a man must do for himself.
You are the only hope and advocate of your race.
There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.
It's better to be damned than not to do the right thing.
One can be proud and unbowed and lonely.
Every man is the arbiter of his own virtues.
You can’t tell the facts of a case to a jury in words of more than two syllables.
It’s not wrong to kill a man; it’s wrong to kill him for the wrong reason.
You get no credit for living.
