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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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Wealth inequality has increased.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been called into question in the twenty-first century. And I said to myself, my god, a society in history without social movements, for me, is very difficult to live in.
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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
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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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If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.
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The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.
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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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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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The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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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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