No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.
- Cornel West
More Quotes By Cornel West
- To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love...
- White supremacy is so deep-seated that it’s hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it...
- We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so...
- The country is in deep trouble. We’ve forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying...
- You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you...
- You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It’s a matter of...
- When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don’t say that he predicted anything; you...
- The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep...
- When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
- Black people have always been America’s wilderness in search of a promised land.
- We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and...
- There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black...
- It’s a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what’s right and...
- When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can’t get away with their...
- The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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