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 BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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