Best Cornel West Sayings
- To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. Allows
- To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. All
- Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is. Anytime
- I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. Black
- I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. Century
- What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I… Analytical
- And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels… American
- The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. America
- We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. Buying
- I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by… America
- The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us.… Acceptance
- 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 of… Citizens
- You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. Climate
- Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Addicted
- Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… Black
- A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks… Agenda
- 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. Brother
- My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant… African
- 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… Community
- Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. Chance
- Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. Concern
- 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… Administration
- We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. Allow
- Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate… Becomes
- I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black… Accountable
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