Cornel West — "I'm a spiritual warrior. I'm fighting for truth, justice, and love."

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."

"I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being profound."

"I'm a revolutionary Christian, a non-Marxist socialist, a prophetic pragmatist, and a Socratic gadfly."

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom."