Democracy Matters Quotes

“To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.”
― Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

“The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history.”
― Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

“Only the accountability of an informed citizenry and the intractability of a just rule of law can thwart the nihilism of imperial elites -- here or anywhere else.”
― Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism