James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
James A. "Jim" Baldwinwas an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina—now Duke University, Lehigh University, and Wake Forest University, compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14. Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools, amassing a career college basketball...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 August 1924
CountryUnited States of America
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
You cannot fix what you will not face.
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.