V’nishmartem me’od lnafshoteichem
“We’re not talking about the past… it is one thing to do something, and another to deny it.” — James Baldwin, National Press Club (December 1986) “For example, in the ‘50s when I was, we were all there, you know, trying, testing the law, trying to get signs to come down, trying to desegregate the country. You and I, for example, you white, me Black. We would try to get arrested for sitting in front of the bus together. And the mayor of Atlanta would never, never arrest us. He did not want any of those cases to come into court… Do you see what I mean? It was that kind of tension between the city and the state… That's why people... they say ‘I’m from Atlanta, I’m not from Georgia.’” — James Baldwin (with Studs Terkel, November 22, 1985) “It doesn’t mean anything to be [Israeli]. It doesn’t mean anything to be [Palestinian]. It means something to try to become a human being. It means something you try to create a country, to create a society in which people can live, [Israeli] and [Pa...
