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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
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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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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
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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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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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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
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We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.
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We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
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Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
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Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.
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We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
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Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.
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