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Black people have been working hard for decades.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Philosopher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.
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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
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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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I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
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Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.
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We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
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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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If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.
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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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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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The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
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We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.
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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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