The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.
Cornel WestI do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
Cornel WestThere is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
Cornel WestIt's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.
Cornel West