Radical Hope
Cornel West points out that radical hope is grounded in what “the Enlightenment did not adequately articulate: the courage to care, to feel deep agony and anguish, to deal with the tears generated by the suffering that people experience—…[radical hope] is also rooted in the blood-drenched tear-soaked traditions of resistance and critique—and in the agency of the wretched of the earth. The courage to hope, like laughter and dance, is an attempt to endure, to persevere, to fight, and to struggle come what may. Nothing can extinguish or crush radical hope—no matter what we continue to think critically about, care deeply for, or hope substantively to achieve.”
~Allen Taylor