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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.

James Baldwin

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
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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Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Art Force Reality Represent
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth

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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