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Country Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
- Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of…
- What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
- If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the…
- It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
- I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.…
- Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now,…
- Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to…
- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
- I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't…
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- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
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- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood