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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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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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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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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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In the sense that youre not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesnt isnt unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. – Peter Singer

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The term genre eventually becomes pejorative because youre referring to something thats so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. – Christopher Nolan

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. – Vaclav Havel

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I dont think Ive ever been an agnostic. Ive always thought theres a superior power, that this is not the real world and that theres a world to come. – Bob Dylan

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