"Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black……" — James A. Baldwin
"Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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