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

Cornel West

Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.

Cornel West

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Cornel West

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

Cornel West

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Cornel West

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Cornel West

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.

Cornel West

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.

Cornel West

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

Cornel West

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

Cornel West

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

Cornel West