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I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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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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I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
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For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
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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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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
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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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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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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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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.
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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
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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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