Cornel West Quotes

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Justice is what love looks like in public. - Cornel West quote.
Justice is what love looks like in public.
— Cornel West Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir

justice

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something. - Cornel West quote.
Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
— Cornel West Prophetic Fragments

faith

For King, dissent did not mean disloyalty — in fact, dissent was a high form of patriotism. - Cornel West quote.
For King, dissent did not mean disloyalty — in fact, dissent was a high form of patriotism.
— Cornel West The Radical King

Martin Luther King civil rights movement

For King, the condition of truth was to allow suffering to speak; for him, justice was what love looks like in public. - Cornel West quote.
For King, the condition of truth was to allow suffering to speak; for him, justice was what love looks like in public.
— Cornel West The Radical King

Martin Luther King civil rights movement

Following his dear friend and comrade Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, King believed that indifference to evil is more evil than evil itself. - Cornel West quote.
Following his dear friend and comrade Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, King believed that indifference to evil is more evil than evil itself.
— Cornel West The Radical King

Martin Luther King evil apathy

Empire, white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and homophobia are linked in complex ways, and our struggles against them require moral consistency and systemic analyses. - Cornel West quote.
Empire, white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and homophobia are linked in complex ways, and our struggles against them require moral consistency and systemic analyses.
— Cornel West The Radical King

society

The litmus test for realizing King's dream was neither a black face in the White House nor a black presence on Wall Street. Rather, the fulfillment of his dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity. - Cornel West quote.
The litmus test for realizing King's dream was neither a black face in the White House nor a black presence on Wall Street. Rather, the fulfillment of his dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity.
— Cornel West The Radical King

African-Americans Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr., was the major threat to the US government and the American establishment because he dared to organize and mobilize black rage over past and present crimes against humanity targeting black folk and other oppressed people. - Cornel West quote.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was the major threat to the US government and the American establishment because he dared to organize and mobilize black rage over past and present crimes against humanity targeting black folk and other oppressed people.
— Cornel West The Radical King

African-Americans Martin Luther King civil rights movement

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison-industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. Arbitrary uses of the law in the name of the "war" on drugs have produced, in legal scholar Michelle Alexander's well-known phrase, a new Jim Crow of mass incarceration. And poverty is an economic catastrophe, inseparable from the power of greedy oligarchs and avaricious plutocrats indifferent to the misery of poor children, elderly and disabled citizens, and working people. - Cornel West quote.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison-industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. Arbitrary uses of the law in the name of the "war" on drugs have produced, in legal scholar Michelle Alexander's well-known phrase, a new Jim Crow of mass incarceration. And poverty is an economic catastrophe, inseparable from the power of greedy oligarchs and avaricious plutocrats indifferent to the misery of poor children, elderly and disabled citizens, and working people.
— Cornel West The Radical King

African-Americans racism