Agendas Quote by Cornel West

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

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

Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy.…

— 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

The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy…

— Patrisse Cullors

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

— John Hope Franklin

The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for…

— Cord Jefferson

I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger…

— Opal Tometi

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country…

— Michael C Dawson

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

— H. Rap Brown

The Black Lives Matter National Network and the movement at large are sophisticated. We're not easily won over by talking points and campaign trail…

— Patrisse Cullors

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