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Love Quotes by Cornel West

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Cornel West talks about love as a powerful force that drives work and commitment. He links radical love to caring for the poor, loyalty, and patience. He also notes that love for everyday people differs from hatred of injustice and that the black church puts love at the center.

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We are who we are because somebody loved us.

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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

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Education is soul crafting.

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When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

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You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

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Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

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The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to…

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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.

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I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red…

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I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving…

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The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of…

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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…

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Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love…

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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,…

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I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number…

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I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the…

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I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness,…

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I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come…

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There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life…

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I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a…

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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may…

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In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very…

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I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren…

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“Nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always the possibility of relapse. There…

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The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do…

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The right wing can use anything, and we have to make it very clear and I make it very clear that my…

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Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people…

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Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we…

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We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to…

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I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've…

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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able…

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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

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Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make…

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The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to…

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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.