“Now Fonny knows why he is here - why he is where he is; now, he dares to look around him. He is not here for anything he has done. He has always known that, but now he knows it with a difference. At meals, in the showers, up and down the stairs, in the evening, just before everyone is locked in again, he looks at the others, he listens: What have they done? Not much. To do much is to have the power to place these people where they are, and keep them where they are. These captive men are the hidden price for a hidden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned. To do much is to have the power and the necessity to dictated to the damned.”
Quotes by James Baldwin Brown
James Baldwin Brown
James Baldwin Brown was a British Congregational minister known for his influential role in the religious and social landscape of the 19th century. He was a prominent figure in the Congregationalist m...