Cornel West vs. Martin Luther King
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Cornel West
1953 – present
Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, politician, social critic, and public intellectual. West was an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election and is an outspoken voice in left-wing politics in the United States. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of race, gender, and class struggle in American society.
"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public."
Martin Luther King
1929 – 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Connections
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