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We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.
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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
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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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Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.
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