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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.
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Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
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Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.
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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
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The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
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I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
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I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
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The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.
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I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.
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