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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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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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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power
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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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power

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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power

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. – Bryant H. McGill

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power

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle

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power

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The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. – Brian Harris

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If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. – Author Unknown

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Live Now

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. – Julius Caesar

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Men

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation. – Yogaswami

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Meditation