Cornel West

I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, a jazzman in the world of ideas.

Obama posed as progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency.

White supremacy is America's original sin.

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

To be a Christian is to be a follower of the historical Jesus, who was a revolutionary Jew.

Justice is not a thing, it's a practice.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of life. Hope is a verb, not a noun.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak.

We are living in a society that is rapidly losing its capacity for empathy.

The greatest threat to American democracy is not external, but internal.

To be a prophet is to be a truth-teller in a world of lies.

The American empire is in decline, and we must be honest about it.

Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice of justice.

The greatest challenge of our time is to keep despair at bay.

We must never confuse a moment with a movement.

To be revolutionary is to be a lover of truth and justice.

The legacy of white supremacy is still alive and well in America.

Neoliberalism is the new Jim Crow.

The function of a university is to produce not just specialists, but citizens.