"When human rights are abused on a grand……" — James A. Baldwin
"When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it…
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused…
— Dianne Feinstein
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer…
— Euripides
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights,…
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine…
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has…
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I…
— William J. Clinton
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