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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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.
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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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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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
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Wall Street is stronger than ever.
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Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.
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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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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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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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The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.
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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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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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