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. ✨ The Devil Finds Work. Book by James A. Baldwin, 1976, reprinted in James A. Baldwin The Price of the Ticket, 1985.
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