We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I 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… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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