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.
CORNEL WESTI 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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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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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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