“It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.”

Chester Himes

Chester Himes - “It seemed so illogical to punish some...” 1

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