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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

Cornel West

Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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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Country People Rights
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
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.
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Hey People Thinking
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
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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People Sight White
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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.
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Belief Difference Strong

It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

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