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    James Baldwin
    “If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: compassion, pain, suffering
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    James Baldwin
    “Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”
    ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
    tags: 71, reciprocity
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    James Baldwin
    “I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: courage, individuality, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons
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    James Baldwin
    “The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    James Baldwin
    “Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
    If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
    tags: american-culture
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    Joseph Fort Newton
    “Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
    ― Joseph Fort Newton
    tags: bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational, intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, walls
    625 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: activism, non-violence, racism, revolution
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    bell hooks
    “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”
    ― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
    tags: bigotry
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    Angie Thomas
    “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: black-lives-matter, racism
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    Barack Obama
    “That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserved of their scorn.”
    ― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
    tags: politics, racism
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    Jonathan Lethem
    “What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”
    ― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
    tags: 490, racism
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    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Malcolm X
    “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: truth
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    Malcolm X
    “You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power
    tags: education-system
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    Malcolm X
    “You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “Who taught you to hate yourself?”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Ovid
    “Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
    ― Ovid
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    Hannah Arendt
    “Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”
    ― Hannah Arendt
    tags: forgiveness, history
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom
    265 likes



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