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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and sellin

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

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Fear
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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, thats being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. – Cornel West

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Trust
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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks whats best for all. – Cornel West

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Education
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. – Oskar Schindler

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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Im not out burning bras, but Im very opinionated about women owning their power. – Katherine Heigl

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. – Stephen Leacock

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Imagination comes of not having things. – LeRoy Neiman

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Im thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other peoples lives. – Rachel Roy

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