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Author : James Baldwin
: The Portable Sixties Reader
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...the real leadership was to be found everywhere, in law courts, colleges, churches, hobo camps; on picket lines, freight trains, and chain gangs, and in jails. Not everyone who was publicized as a leader really was one. And many leaders who would never have dreamed of applying the term to themselves were considered by the Republic -- when it knew of their existence at all -- to be criminals. This is, of course, but the old and universal story of poverty in battle with privilege, but we tend not to think of old and universal stories as occurring in our band-new and still relentlessly parochial land.
From : "The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King," by James Baldwin, included as an essay in the February 1961 issue of Harper's. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics, pages 19-20..
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