At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
James A. BaldwinWe are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
James A. BaldwinThe 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 man 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.
James A. Baldwin