black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
CORNEL WEST

Buying Pleasure Selling
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.
CORNEL WEST

Christian Land Name
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
CORNEL WEST

Ordinary People Wake
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WEST

Christian Political President
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
CORNEL WEST

Believe Brother Gay
I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
CORNEL WEST

Philosophy Understanding Way
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
CORNEL WEST

Absolute Fine Truth
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
CORNEL WEST

Century Form Tribalism
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
CORNEL WEST

People Sight White
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
CORNEL WEST

Democracy Majority Rights
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
CORNEL WEST

Think Thinking Value Yourself
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
CORNEL WEST

Believe Christian Intellectual
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
CORNEL WEST

Form Murder Soul
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
CORNEL WEST

Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
CORNEL WEST

Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
CORNEL WEST

Ghetto Police Racism

Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cornel West Quotes