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Who Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back…
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- 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…
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their…
- The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
- It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
- Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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