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.
CORNEL WESTWe have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
More Cornel West Quotes
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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