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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
Law, Justice, Humanity
"Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. July 1960.
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.