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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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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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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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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George

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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore de Balzac

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power

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. – Marcus Aurelius

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power

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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