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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 26 quotes by Cornel West Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, academic, activist, author, public intellectual, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The son of a Baptist minister, West received his undergraduate education at Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1973, and received a Ph.D at Princeton University in 1980, becoming the first African American to graduate from Princeton with a Ph.D in... Read full biography of Cornel West → 1 2 Ctrl → The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast... → 0 King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration... → 0 Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos... → 0 You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. 0 A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black... → 0 Black people have been working hard for decades. 0 We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. 0 Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. 0 And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you. 0 Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. 0 We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. 0 Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. 0 We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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