Cornel West Quotes About Inequality

Quotes about: Inequality

• I 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

  Thinking, People, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it's easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

  Cornel West

  Kings, War, White

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Mean, Wealth

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique.

  Cornel West

  Corporations, Kind, Wealth

  "Cornel West on 'The Radical King'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2015.

• Wealth inequality has increased.

  Cornel West

  Wealth, Wealth Inequality, Inequality

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin