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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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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 believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been called into question in the twenty-first century. And I said to myself, my god, a society in history without social movements, for me, is very difficult to live in.
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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
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So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.
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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
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A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
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It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
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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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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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Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.
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I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
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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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Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word value repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.
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