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

    James A. Baldwin: I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
    "In Search of a Majority". James A. Baldwin's address at Kalamazoo College in Michigan (February 1960), as quoted in James A. Baldwin "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son", July 1961.