"It was to Harlem that I came from the Harvard Law School. I came to Harlem to live, to work there as a lawyer, to take some part in the politics of the neighborhood, to be a layman in the Church there. It is now seven years later. In what I now relate about Harlem, I do not wish to indulge in horror stories, though that would be easy enough to do.”
In this extraordinary and passionate book, William Stringfellow relates his deep concern with the ugly reality of being black and being poor.
As a white Anglo-Saxon, Mr. Stringfellow does not try to speak for African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the Harlem ghetto, but, as a lawyer, he graphically underlines the failure of the American legal system to provide equal justice for the poor. And, as a Christian who lived for seven years on what the New York Times called the worst block in New York City, he challenges the reluctance of the churches "to be involved in the racial crisis beyond the point of pontification.”

Author - William Stringfellow

"Few white men have shared such experiences; certainly none has expressed them so eloquently, or ominously. . . . The most disturbing document since James Baldwin's 'The Fire Next Time'. . . . It is neither shouting nor scare journalism. It is a map of hell that might explode tragically at any moment.”

—William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle

"A worthwhile contribution to the American conscience at a time when it has at last decided to admit its shame. . . . Recommended to the policy makers who are charged with the practical expiation of this guilt.”

—Michael Harrington, the New York Times

"Stringfellow has written a layman's sermon that cries out against both the churches and the people, in the manner of biblical days.”

—Associated Press

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An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land by William Stringfellow
Count It All Joy by William Stringfellow
Suspect Tenderness by William Stringfellow, Anthony Towne
Imposters of God by William Stringfellow
A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow
Instead of Death by William Stringfellow
My People is the Enemy by William Stringfellow
Free in Obedience by William Stringfellow
Conscience and Obedience by William Stringfellow
A Second Birthday by William Stringfellow
A Simplicity of Faith by William Stringfellow
Dissenter in a Great Society by William Stringfellow
The Politics of Spirituality by William Stringfellow