James Agee Quote

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction (ed. 2005)