Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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