Agendas Quote by Cornel West

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of…

— Cornel West

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best,…

— Cornel West

“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black elected officials…

— Junius Williams

“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not…

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

— John Hope Franklin

All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black…

— Cornel West

“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from the slaveholder’s…

— Ron Chernow

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of…

— Bell Hooks

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza