Cornel West Suffering Quotations

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.