Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
Cornel West
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
Various
Kings
Wrong
Morally
Speak
Martin
Wanted
Luther
Things
Consistent
Racism
King
More quotes by Cornel West
I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
Cornel West
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.
Cornel West
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
Cornel West
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.
Cornel West
A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
Cornel West
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
Cornel West
For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.
Cornel West
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.
Cornel West
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
Cornel West
Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
Cornel West
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
Cornel West
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
Cornel West
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.
Cornel West
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
Cornel West
I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
Cornel West
The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
Cornel West
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.
Cornel West
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
Cornel West
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
Cornel West
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
Cornel West
