Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
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"Stranger in the Village," Harper's (October 1953); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)James Baldwin
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