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Education is soul crafting.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
Education
Soul
Crafting
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There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
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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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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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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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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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We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
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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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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
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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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