James Baldwin: The Most Ferocious Enemy of Justice

Homeless elderly Puerto Rican woman following Hurricane Maria

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person ― ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

 ― James Baldwin