Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WESTThere 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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 must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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.
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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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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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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