James A. Baldwin Quotes About Liberty
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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