| Author Quoted | John Howard Griffin |
| Title Quoted | Black Like Me |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/03/24 |
| Imprint | Boston : Houghton Mifflin. 1961 |
| Quotation | Yesterday finished the [John Howard] Griffin book Black Like Me, moved and disturbed. As someone said-what there is in the South is not a Negro problem but a white problem. The trouble is pathological. |
| Journal | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 213 |
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