500 Quotes by Cornel West

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

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.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.