There are no more Leslie Dunbars. These essays illumine a life fueled by deep conviction. Leslie has walked in Eleanor Roosevelt's footprints, but cut his own courageous path. He is an inspiration to all who have known him.
~Anne Eleanor Roosevelt
An intellectually rigorous but refreshingly modest philosopher-activist, Dunbar deserves wider recognition for his seminal work in the civil rights movement.
~Durham (NC) Herald-Sun
Leslie Dunbar, through this extraordinary collection, has made a much-needed and meaningful contribution to the history and literature of southern politics. With his involvement and experience, only Dunbar could write and speak with such moral clarity.
~John Lewis
The essays reveal a superbly informed and reflective mind.
~Journal of Southern History
I have always turned to Leslie Dunbar's writings for their compelling blend of penetrating insight and graceful, sometimes Old Testament like prose.
~Paul M. Gaston
In the strongest possible terms, I urge everyone to read this collections of essays and speeches.
~Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
An averment for protest rhetoric activity, grassroots movements, and the radical voice in race relations bent on equality in civic and political life.
~Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Illuminates how liberals, or those of a more progressive ilk, have made a difference on the more controversial issues facing the South.
~Southern Historian
The civil rights days were 'mind changing times' of almost seismic size in the South. Black and white women and men brought this about; bonded together through their churches, human relations councils and other bi-racial groups, doing there the hard work of voter registration, of speaking out in their communities, of now and again marching together. Demands of federal courts, which a few years earlier would have been defied, were accepted. Few persons were as important as was Leslie Dunbar in leading and speaking for that regional and historic 'mind changing.'
~Vernon Jordan