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To be human you must bear witness to justice.

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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
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I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
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The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.
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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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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
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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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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream
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There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
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White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.
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Education is soul crafting.
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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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You can't move forward until you look back.
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The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
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I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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