Religion Quotes by Cornel West

15 Religion quotes by Cornel West

West’s voice bridges academia and activism, and his comments on religion carry that same urgency. In this short set you’ll find his blend of moral critique and hopeful vision for spiritual life.

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The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

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It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

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Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation…

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Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form…

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Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

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Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what…

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Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams;…

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Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive.…

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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just…

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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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“‎"If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end…

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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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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there…

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“The significance of the resurrection claim within “true” Christian descriptions of the self, world and God is that, despite how tragic and…

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What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You…

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I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

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“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.”

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“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”

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When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed…

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The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

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The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

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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.

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

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