When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
CORNEL WESTWhen ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
CORNEL WESTWhen you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
CORNEL WESTI 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
CORNEL WESTWe have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
CORNEL WESTAs human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
CORNEL WESTI do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
CORNEL WESTBeing a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WESTDeath is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
CORNEL WESTI loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
CORNEL WESTI’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].
CORNEL WESTFrederick 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.
CORNEL WESTOf 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 WESTLove is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
CORNEL WESTRap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
CORNEL WESTAnger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
CORNEL WESTI 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.
CORNEL WEST