Han Suyin Quotes
Persecution matures young rebels.
Han, Suyin. A Mortal Flower. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
The veiled threat of violence and disruption was a tactic that did not work.
He was elected to Parliament while in jail and never took his seat as he died of a hunger strike in jail.
His strategy was to fill the jails of Birmingham, and asked the young people to help. The next days saw virtually all the Birmingham high school students our of school and in the streets protesting which was then against the un-Constitutional laws of Birmingham and Alabama. The students were arrested by the droves and the white authorities, believing that they were being firm against “radical lawbreakers”, fell into the trap, and became a travesty to most of the country and the rest of the world and the hundreds of jailed students beaten and assaulted raised the consciousness of whites as well as Blacks.
Writing about congressional investigations such as those carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee:
Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou (Chinese: 周光瑚; pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú) was a Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author better known by her pen name Han Suyin (simplified Chinese: 韩素音; traditional Chinese: 韓素音; pinyin: Hán Sùyīn).
