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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.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Cornel Ronald West
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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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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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The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.
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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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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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