He who learns death unlearns slavery.
CORNEL WESTTruth is fine. Absolutely.
More Cornel West Quotes
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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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.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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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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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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