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.
CORNEL WESTI 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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 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 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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Martin 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.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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