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James Baldwin on Racism and American Character - Dec. 10, 1986

By James Baldwin — 2020

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Novelist James Baldwin in a Dec. 10, 1986 National Press Club talk. In this clip he argues that simplicity and immaturity are considered virtues in America.

03:54 min

FindCenter Quotes Image Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

FindCenter Quotes Image Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Racial Justice