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

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When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case. - Cornel West
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. ― Dom Helder Camara
No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank
Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. - 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
If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. - Cornel West
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. - Cornel West
Religion is the opium of the poor.
Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is. - Cornel West
If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.