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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
Actor
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Philosopher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.
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I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.
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I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
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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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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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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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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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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.
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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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It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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