Stetson Kennedy Quotations

Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.

I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody knew I was trying to reach a big audience with the Klan book.

Dottie perched on the edge of the desk, crossed her legs, and looked at me coyly over her highball. I leaned back . . .

The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.

In all modesty, I am a hard man to discredit.

One time somebody asked me what Woody and I talked about, ... You know, we didn't talk that much. We didn't have to. I knew what he thought, and he knew what I thought.