500 Quotes by Cornel West

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.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

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.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.