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Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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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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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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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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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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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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If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.
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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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