Through action, George has worked hard to promote integration. George Sawyer feels that the integration of races and cultures will bring people to understand and truly love each other-the scriptures show him that this is God's plan. George has spent most of his life placing himself in uncomfortable situations in order to bring justice and peace to his community. By 1925, the year George was born, one third of Indiana's white, Protestant, American-born men and women were members of the Klan. And-according to William Lutholtz's book, Grand Dragon.
Most people think that the opposite of love is hate.
I think the opposite of love is fear. Fear keeps us from loving. They were accused of raping a white woman. Hot tar was poured over their bodies, feathers were tossed and then these men, in desperate pain but still alive, were roped to railroad ties and dragged up and down Main Street until they were dead. When George was in fourth grade, his family moved to Anderson, Indiana.