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King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

~Cornel West

Topics: Citizens Crisis Everyday Everyday People Fundamental King Life Living One Word Ordinary Our People Power Priorities Public Public Life Put Response Revolution Thinking Transfer Transformation Values Way Word

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When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

~Cornel West

Topics: Abandon Care Color Despair Economically Everybody Forms Going Neglect People Respond Sad Socially Them Transfer True Very Wealth You

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I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

~Cornel West

Topics: Always Arts Bearing Being Bigger Could Die Empower Ennoble Exposing Felt Had Inseparable Learning Lies Live Love Many Music Passion People Serve Something Teaching Than Willing Wisdom Witness Yourself

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I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense, I'm very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a Malcolm X who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency.

~Cornel West

Topics: Attention Bring Emergency Harsh Just Language Malcolm Malcolm X Much My Soul Out Part Rather Sense Sometimes Soul Speaks State Tend Times Tradition Used Very Who

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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

~Cornel West

Topics: Actions Being Change Difference Fundamental Individual Institutions Interpersonal Make Organizations Simply Social Social Change You

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I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

~Cornel West

Topics: Been Blessed Feel Gangster Redeemed Sinner Transformation Undergo I Feel

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The problem is we need much more moral content.

~Cornel West

Topics: Content Moral More Much Need Problem

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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

~Cornel West

Topics: Addicted Cheap Clever Distraction Mass Yield

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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

~Cornel West

Topics: Accountable Act Actions Believe Black Criticism Exempt His Hold Nor Obama Our Person President President Obama Racial Saying Should Some Treason I Believe

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Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is.

~Cornel West

Topics: Abroad Autocratic Banks Big Big Money Black Charismatic Corporations Donald Donald Trump Folk Form Like Mexicans Money Muslims Personality Policies States Takes Tied Trump United United States Vulnerable Women

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: June 2nd, 1953

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