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Cornel West

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
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 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
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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Country People Rights
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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Believe Brother Gay
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
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
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
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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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Differences Successful Year

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