Quote by Cornel West
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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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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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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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power

The anti-globalisation movement is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. – Noam Chomsky

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power

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. – Mark Zuckerberg

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power

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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power

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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. – Kurt Vonnegut

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War

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. – Bennie Thompson

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Wisdom

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. – Proverb

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Worth

I feel like Im a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. Shes absolutely been my focus. Thats the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up. – Teri Hatcher

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mom