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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
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I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.
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So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.
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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.
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The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
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We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
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For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
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