Cornel West Quotes

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoi...

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate co...

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up i...

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can se...

To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challen...

There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm ...

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowe...

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is ...

..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inabi...

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrop...

The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black Ameri...

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms o...

The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, deferred gratification, a...

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive ...

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must acce...

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental reali...

Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindian...

Only a visionary leadership that can motivate "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln said, an...

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they woul...

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenien...

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person...

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neolib...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to payche...

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-tel...

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democ...

And when you love people, you hate the fact that they’re being treated unfairly. You tell the truth....

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you m...

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing chu...

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth...

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born bet...

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine...

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

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's m...

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

119When you bring together the national security state and the military-industrial complex, when you...