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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
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
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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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In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.
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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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There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.
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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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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.
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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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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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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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American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
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