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Cornel West

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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Differences Fundamentals Organization
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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Believe Christian Intellectual
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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Idea Men Wise
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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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Ghetto Police Racism
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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Philosophy Understanding Way
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
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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Christian Land Name
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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Hey People Thinking
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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People Sight White
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul

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