If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
Cornel WestThe most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
Cornel WestThe women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
Cornel WestThe need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.
Cornel West