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  • Cornel West Quote - When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
  • Cornel West Quote - When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
  • Cornel West Quote - When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
  • Cornel West Quote - When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
  • Cornel West Quote - When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
  • Cornel West Quote - When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

Cornel West

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

    Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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?

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

    We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Frederick 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.

    Frederick 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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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].

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

    As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - He who learns death unlearns slavery.

    He who learns death unlearns slavery.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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 WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

    Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

    We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

    CORNEL WEST