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“Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth, and love.” ”

—Cornel West

“Hence, for liberals, black people are to be 'included' and 'integrated' into 'our' society and culture, while for conservatives they are to be 'well-behaved' and 'worthy of acceptance' by 'our' way of life. Both fail to see that the presence and predicaments of black people are neither additions to nor defections from American life, but rather constitutive elements of that life.”

—Cornel West, Race Matters

“There is no doubt that if young white people were incarcerated at the same rates as young black people, the issue would be a national emergency. But it is also true that if young black middle- and upper-class people were incarcerated at the same rates as young black poor people, black leaders would focus much more on the prison-industrial complex.”

—Cornel West in the foreword of The New Jim Crow 

“[Obama is] just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal. You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: 'I shouldn't have done that, I've got to stop.' But when you do it month in, month out, year in, year out – that's a pattern of behaviour. I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people.”

—Professor Cornel West, speaking to The Guardian.
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