Quote by James Baldwin
You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what th

You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin

Category:
Racism
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

Category:
Exile
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Other Quotes from
Oppression
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. – E. M. Cioran

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Oppression

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. – G. K. Chesterton

Category:
Oppression

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. – Judge Learned Hand

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Oppression

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Oppression

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When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old. – Lady Bird Johnson

Category:
Weather

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Democracy

As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Opportunities

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Buddha

Category:
Conformity