Cornel West Quotes

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

No country in the world abounds in men of higher honor and integrity than the South, but where the question of Slavery is involved, justice and honor must stand aside, and the worst passions of the worst part of society become the ruling principle. The tyrant's plea of public danger and public necessity on such occasions overrides all laws, higher and lower, and the demagogue who bids highest for the public favor, by avowing the most malignant hatred of Abolitionism, is sure to obtain power. The honor of the South, therefore, cannot be trusted where the interests of Slavery are involved, because on such occasions the voice of honor and truth is always silenced by the clamor of low, brutal and selfish passions.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Bad company corrupts good character.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.