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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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.
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American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
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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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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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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.
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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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The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
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In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.
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Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
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Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
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