The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Any 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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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Freedom 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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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