The Help shows many examples of the meaning of this quote throughout the whole story. Racism played a huge roll in everyone's lives in this time and affected people more than they realized.
The people who weren't racist and cruel were almost as bad as the ones who were, by not saying anything at all.
Martins Luther Kind Jr: "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people". Are the "good people" really good if they do not show any compassion towards any issues other than their own?
No one was standing up against racism. Either they didn't think it was wrong or thought they'd be better off watching it pass them by. Staying out of the issue does not always make it less of mess. They also might have been afraid of discriminated themselves by other people who thought it wasn't right to stand up against racism. No matter what you should stand up for what you believe in. Things don't change if nobody tries.
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