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Social Justice Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
- Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
- In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
- The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
- Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for…
- Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
- The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of…
- 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…
- It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you…
- 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 cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
- The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity…
- The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
More Social Justice Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. — Pearl Bailey
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams