James Baldwin Quote

The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record—everybody's record is criminal. It is gone because you cannot do one thing and pretend you're doing another! None of us, who are sitting around in some of the true limbo out-of-space, which we call "now," waiting to be saved, civilized, or discovered, have the moral authority to say anything.


The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (ed. Vintage, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307378965


The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record—everybody's record is...

The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record—everybody's record is...

The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record—everybody's record is...

The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record—everybody's record is...