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.
CORNEL WESTMartin 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.
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 can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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