The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin
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More quotes by James A. Baldwin
- People can cry much easier than they can change.
- The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.