James A. Baldwin Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
Birthday: August 2
Death: December 1
The 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.
topic: Children, Taken, Rain, Defenseless, Sanctity Of Human Life
