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.
CORNEL WESTMusic is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
More Cornel West Quotes
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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