Truth is fine. Absolutely.
CORNEL WESTMusic is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
More Cornel West Quotes
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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