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.
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
More Cornel West Quotes
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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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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Love 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.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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