Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINHistory 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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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