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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
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
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I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
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I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
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Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.
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