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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

Cornel West

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
CORNEL WEST

Century Form Tribalism
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.
CORNEL WEST

Smiley Water Way
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
CORNEL WEST

Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WEST

Christian Political President
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
CORNEL WEST

Jazz Music Need
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.
CORNEL WEST

Country People Rights
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
CORNEL WEST

Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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.
CORNEL WEST

Littles Magazine Reading
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WEST

Bitterness Long Rage
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
CORNEL WEST

Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
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)
CORNEL WEST

Democracy Majority Rights
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
CORNEL WEST

Ordinary People Wake
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
CORNEL WEST

Ghetto Police Racism
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
CORNEL WEST

High Quality Trust Without
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 WEST

Christian Land Name

Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

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