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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
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You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
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I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.
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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
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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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Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.
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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.
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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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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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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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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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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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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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So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.
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Context shapes who you are.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.
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