"If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony."

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

James A. Baldwin

#Country Quotes #Law Quotes #Class Quotes

“Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.”
“I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.”
“In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important”
“They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth.”

Source : "The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945". Book by Richard Steigmann-Gall, 2003.
“Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by lifeâ€™s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.”

Source : T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House
“Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in.”
“The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.”
“Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back.”

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