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CORNEL WESTRage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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 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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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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