James A. Baldwin Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

  James A. Baldwin

  Humanity, Deny

• It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Law, Justice, Humanity

  "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. July 1960.

• I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

  James A. Baldwin

  Eye, Men, Humanity

• A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Humanity, Atheism, Causes

• The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

  James A. Baldwin

  Wall, Responsibility, Color

• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

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