We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
CORNEL WESTAnytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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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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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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I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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