The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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