Quote by Cornel West
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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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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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. – Cornel West

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relationship
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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. – Black Elk

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Doing the right thing has power. – Laura Linney

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power

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. – Bertrand Russell

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