How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/magazine/how-william-faulkner-tackled-race-and-freed-the-south-from-itself.html

Another great writer full of Biblical allusions, William Faulkner,
used the phrase in a 1955 speech: “We speak now against the day when
our Southern people who will resist to the last these inevitable
changes in social relations, will, when they have been forced to
accept what they at one time might have accepted with dignity and
goodwill, will say, "Why didn't someone tell us this before? Tell us
this in time?"

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