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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
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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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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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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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I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.
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The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.
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