The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. - Cornel West
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
- Cornel West
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be bette… - Cornel West
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be bette…
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth - Cornel West
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. - Cornel West
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
We are who we are because somebody loved us. - Cornel West
We are who we are because somebody loved us.
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. - Cornel West
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. - Cornel West
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about… - Cornel West
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about…
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
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.
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