There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes oneโs head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other peopleโs pain.
James A. BaldwinThere are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
James A. BaldwinAsk any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin