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  • Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
  • Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
  • Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
  • Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
  • Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
  • Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

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    When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

    Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

    John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

    You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

    Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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].

    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].

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

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

    We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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

    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

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