"Lillian Smith is a very great, and heroic, and very lonely figure. Obviously. She has very few friends in that little hamlet in Georgia where she carries on so gallantly. She has paid a tremendous price for trying to do what she thinks is right. And the price is terribly, terribly high. The only way the price can become a little bit less is for more people to do it."
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1961 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989)
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Lillian Smith (author)
Lillian Eugenia Smith (December 12, 1897 – September 28, 1966) was an American author and social activist.
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