Quotes by Baldwin, James

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. >>

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised >>

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. >>

Quotations about Human Rights

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they l >>

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rig >>

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the >>

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

Baldwin, James