We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
CORNEL WESTMartin 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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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.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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.
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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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