He who learns death unlearns slavery.
CORNEL WESTYou must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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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.
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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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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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