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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.
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In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.
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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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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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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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I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
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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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The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
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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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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
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The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
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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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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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I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes.
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Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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