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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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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 blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
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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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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.
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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
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None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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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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I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
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liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
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