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Cornel West Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1953

Topics

Good Community Time Important Say

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

John C. Calhoun

Peace People Ambition Earth Kind

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

John Doolittle

Retirement Security Country Personal

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

John Mackey

Important Workforce Organized Things

I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.

Jeffrey Tambor

Community Environment Open Up Very

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Jeb Bush

Create Lead Divide Leaders Climate

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Michael Bloomberg

Live People World Look Tragedy Know

There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.

Sonya Walger

Live Bag Always Pencil Everything

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Steven Pinker

Past Trees Present Forest Place

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

Steven Stucky

Character Go Know Want Movement

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

Steve Schirripa

People Game Present You Place More

In American politics, the deepest rivalry is between the rational world and the right wing of the GOP, who are increasingly marginalized in their view that America cannot take on the big challenges.

Tom Steyer

Politics Challenges World American

When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.

Roger Moore

Words I Am Me Thought Clothes Long