James A. Baldwin Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Freedom, Government

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel"

• 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

  Country, Law, Class

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

• Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

  James A. Baldwin

  Liberty, Affliction, Crutches

• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  James A. Baldwin

  Knowledge, Science, Government

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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