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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
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Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.
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You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.
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You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.
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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.
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You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.
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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
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I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.
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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
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