There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
Cornel WestIt takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
Cornel WestMartin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.
Cornel WestI think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.
Cornel West