Cornel West Quotes

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Racial discrimination is wrong and racial preference is just as wrong.

We don’t treat racism by practicing racism.

Nor do I believe that we should be impartial about certain things like racialism, or extreme forms of political belief.

Democracy has become the instrument of that race [the Jews] …. Only the Jew can praise as institution which is as dirty and untrue as himself.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.