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Cornel West

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
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
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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
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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Littles Magazine Reading
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love

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