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 WESTHey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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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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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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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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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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