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James Baldwin

“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes—I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether—is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened. One wishes they would say so more often.”

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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The Fire Next Time The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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