"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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Source : "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

James A. Baldwin

#Country Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes

“I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.”
“When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.”
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
“For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.”
“I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.”
“Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Pervez Musharraf from Dec 26, 2011
“True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the passing moment; it is eternal, though we evanescent men experience only a fragment of it. We have no right to imperil the happiness of posterity by impudently tinkering with the heritage of humanity.”
“I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.”

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