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.
CORNEL WESTFrederick 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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