Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWINIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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