• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  James Baldwin
  American writer 1924-1987
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. impossibility
2. remaining
3. faithful
4. becoming
5. excesses

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. by : James Baldwin

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