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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
Source: The Price of the Ticket, 1972
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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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.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way . . . people look at reality, then you can change it.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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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.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin : American writer & civil rights leader
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
 
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