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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Cornel Ronald West
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So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
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I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
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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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