Harold H. Greene – 4 Quotes

4 Quotes by Harold H. Greene

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun – learning political maneuvering.

– Harold H. Greene

You can’t just lecture the poor that they shouldn’t riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

– Harold H. Greene

The attorney general would call at 5 o’clock in the evening and say: ‘Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we’re likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.’

– Harold H. Greene

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn’t get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

– Harold H. Greene