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For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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Justice
Love
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Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word value repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.
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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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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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We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
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Wealth inequality has increased.
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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