Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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