• It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

    James A. Baldwin: It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
    "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. July 1960.