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Cornel West Quotes

“Love and right defeated at the moment is always stronger than cowardliness and greed and evil triumphant.”

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Author:Cornel West

“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”

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Book:The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“In April 2001, a student group called the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over the offices of the university’s president, demanding a living wage for Harvard janitors and food workers. That spring, a daily diversion on the way to class was to see which national figure—Cornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich another—had turned up in the Yard to encourage the protesters. Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a “Pizza and Politics” session with a journalist like Matt Bai or a governor like Howard Dean, I did not guess that the students poised to have the greatest near-term impact were not the social justice warriors at the protests […] but a few mostly apolitical geeks who were quietly at work in Kirkland House”

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Book:Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Source: Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future