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)
CORNEL WESTIt’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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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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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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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