We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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I 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.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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