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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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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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To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.
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I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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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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You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.
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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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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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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
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Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
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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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None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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