James Sanbourne > Quotes

“He had heard through his sources that I was drinking and doing drugs and going with girls. He wanted me to know that these things were bad, that is true. But he was not really concerned with sex and drugs and drinking. If that was all, then he would get me out of this place. He could do that. Set me free even. No, those things did not bother him so much. But there was one thing that he had heard that he could not countenance. He had heard that I had a Black kid as a friend. And that he could not tolerate.”
― James Sanbourne, My Mormon Life; A Boy's Struggle With Polygamy, Magic Underwear,and Racism