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.
CORNEL WESTI’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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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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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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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