Cornel West Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

  Cornel West

  Community, Important, Way

• Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

  Cornel West

  Self, Community, Black

  Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

• Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist.

  Cornel West

  Religious, Light, Views

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

• No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

  Cornel West

  People, Community, Individual

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

  Cornel West

  Moving, Doors, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

  Cornel West

  Wings, Community, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I 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 West

  Strong, Believe, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

  Cornel West

  Ideas, Community, Mind

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

• The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Dream, Jesus

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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