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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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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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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
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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 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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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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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
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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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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!
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White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.
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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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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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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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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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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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