James Baldwin Quote

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.


Collected Essays (ed. 1998)


We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a...

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a...

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a...

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a...