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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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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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I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.
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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream
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We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.
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Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
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When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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Wall Street is stronger than ever.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
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