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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most – and listens to their testimony.

— James A. Baldwin

[This quote was found on one of the blogs I follow: I didn’t have my glasses on….
Located at: https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/
The specific post is located at: https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2021/04/21/justice-begins/

Please visit the original site when you have a spare minute. — KMAB]

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On This Day In:
2021	A Direct Relationship
	Another Night Train South
2020	One Person’s Roses…
2019	In The Long-Run
2018	#NeverAgain
	Doss II
	Doesn’t / Does
2017	Talent Hates To Move
2016	Looking To November
2015	It Isn’t The End
	Prospero’s Precepts
2014	Friends
2013	Learning Bitter
2012	Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
	May I Have More Happiness, Please?
2011	There Is No God, But God
2010	Another Running Book…

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

— James Baldwin

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On This Day In:
2015	What Are You Looking At?
2014	Ite, Missa Est
2013	I Hear Voices
2012	Positive Thoughts
	Hope Works
2011	Look! Up In The Sky…
	Humility Before The Unknowable

…Baldwin’s insight remains: that, as we fight our evils, we must confront, without flinching, the history of this country that continues to shape who we are and limit who we can be. In great pain and terror, we have to do this even as we bury our dead if we — and I mean all of us — are to be truly free.

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
From the article: “*Black and white America look to James Baldwin to unpin us all from history*“
Appearing in *Time Magazine, dtd: 29 August 2016, in the “Time Off*” essay section

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On This Day In:
2015	Me Either
2014	Just Business
2013	Beautiful Adventure
2012	Precedence
2011	Ya Think?

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

— James Baldwin
From: “Notes of a Native Son“

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On This Day In:
2015	From A Letter To A Friend
2014	Your Part (Here)
2013	Complements
2012	Sound And Light
2011	Two Politicians Visit A Farm…
2010	Labor Day And Honorable Men

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

— James Baldwin

[What am I afraid to face? — KMAB]

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On This Day In:
2014	Honoring Firefighters
2013	And Never Will
2012	The Human Adventure Continues
2011	Almost Never

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

— James Baldwin
From: “Notes of a Native Son“

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I don’t like people who like me because I’m a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt.

— James Baldwin
From: “Notes of a Native Son“

[Or in my case, American / Irish / Hispanic / employed / Catholic / etc… And yes, I realize I remain a Catholic by choice and employed by necessity. — KMAB]

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