It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think that when we talk about education I was also blessed to talk with my dear brother Arne Duncan. I had… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological… — 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 authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — 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… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings… — 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
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
When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values,… — 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
I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation… — 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 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
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
![“I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77e/cornel-west-708_anxiety_i-think-nonviolence-and-the-mediation-of_1904871.jpg)
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