Most People Don't Know These Are Quotes By James Baldwin

Prolific writer James Baldwin witnessed injustice firsthand during the tumultuous 1960s - and he had a lot to say about it. Here are 5 Baldwin quotes that are still relevant today.

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”

“The purpose of education… is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.”

“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.”

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”