Baldwin

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“It is very nearly impossible ... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)