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Cornel West Quotes - Page 12

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Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

Struggle, Past, Alternatives

This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.

Book, Reading, Practice

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

Strong, Names, People

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

Kings, Jail, Memorial

The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.

America, Way, Problem

Source: www.pbs.org

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

Thinking, Ought, Mechanism

Source: www.pbs.org

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

Thinking, Talking, Events

Source: www.pbs.org

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.

Believe, Black, Criticism

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

Moving, Doors, Community

Source: www.pbs.org

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

Team, People, Want

"Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on Obama's Debt-Ceiling Deal: Republicans 'Cleaned His Clock'" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, in some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.

Pain, Moving, Heart

"Brother West". Book by Cornel West, www.npr.org. 2009.

When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country." - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream

Dream, Country, Men

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

Fire, Soul, Intellectual

I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.

Success, Country, Moving

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Wall, Two, Greed

Black people have been working hard for decades.

Work, People, Black

"CNN Hosts Leftists Saying Cain Should Get Off 'Crack Pipe'". Interview with Suzanne Malveaux, www.mrc.org. October 10, 2011.

Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

Powerful, Book, Class

Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!

Book, People, Missing

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

Real, Soul, Steps

"Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Passion, West, Sides

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.

Thinking, People, Hey

"Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Community, Important, Way

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

Source: www.pbs.org

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

Accountability, Drones, Citizens

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Wall, Stronger, Streets

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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