I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
CORNEL WESTOf course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
More Cornel West Quotes
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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)
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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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Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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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.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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