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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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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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We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
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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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Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.
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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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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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You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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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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Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
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