3 James Baldwin Quotes on Faith

James Baldwin quotes on faith

12. I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

25. Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

39. I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.