confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
CORNEL WESTconfining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
CORNEL WESTWe have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
CORNEL WESTWe have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
CORNEL WESTBeing a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WESTI don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
CORNEL WESTI loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
CORNEL WESTRage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WESTI remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
CORNEL WESTHey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
CORNEL WESTI 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
CORNEL WESTDeath is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
CORNEL WESTI 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.
CORNEL WESTAs human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
CORNEL WESTFrederick 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 WESTMartin 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 WESTGoing 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