Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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| — | James Baldwin | Fifth Avenue, Uptown (1960) |
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their ‘vital interests’ are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a [person] to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the ‘sanctity’ of human life, or the ‘conscience’ of the civilized world.
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| — | James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work (via theeducatedfieldnegro) |
