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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
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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 remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years Be successful, be successful, be successful as opposed to Be great, be great, be great. There's a qualitative difference.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Wealth inequality has increased.
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The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.
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If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.
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We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
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None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
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Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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