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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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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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