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Cornel West

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
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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Democracy Majority Rights
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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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Belief Difference Strong
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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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Hey People Thinking
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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Philosophy Understanding Way
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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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Country People Rights

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