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Justice is what love looks like in public.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.
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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream
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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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liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
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