Cornel West Quotes


You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. - Cornel West


Who wants to be well-adjusted to injustice? What kind of human being do you want to be? - Cornel West


What is frightening about 1997 is the erosion of the systems of caring and nurturing in America at large, but in particular,black America. - Cornel West


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


We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. - Cornel West


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. - Cornel West


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


We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. - Cornel West


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. - Cornel West


There's a parallel between the killing fields of the slave ships ... and the killing fields of the Super Dome. - Cornel West


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