Cornel West
“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West
“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West
“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
― Cornel West
“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
― Cornell West
“Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority.”
― Cornel West
“Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity.”
― Cornel West
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle”
― Cornel West
"There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie."
― Cornel West
"When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots."
― Cornel West
"It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself."
― Cornel West
"Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice."
― Cornel West
"Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists."
― Cornel West
"Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth."
― Cornel West
"There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three."
― Cornel West
"We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property."
― Cornel West