We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
Cornel WestIt takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
Cornel WestI just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.
Cornel West