I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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More Cornel West Quotes
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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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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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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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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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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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