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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.
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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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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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I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
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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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For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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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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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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Education is soul crafting.
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It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
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We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.
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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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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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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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