Cornel West: Quotes about love

Cornel West is African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Cornel West: 56 quotes8 likes

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

Brother West (2009), p. 232

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.”

Source: Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom (2008); also on "The Way I See It" Starbucks Coffee Cup #284

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.”