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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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Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.
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Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
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You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.
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And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.
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Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
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