I’ve never used so many page flags or reread so many passages. James Baldwin had long since stopped being a pastor, but this book is convicting. It’s a plea not only for awareness but for action. Here-and-there wins for civil rights won’t save your soul, and they can’t save our country.
“How can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not on any level whatever live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”