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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

~Cornel West

Topics: Administration Been Betrayal Disappointment Focus Just Kind Me Obama Obama Administration People Poor Poor People Working Working People

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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

~Cornel West

Topics: Being Concern Justice Love Margins Poor Pushed See Trust You

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Black people have been working hard for decades.

~Cornel West

Topics: Been Black Decades Hard People Working Working Hard

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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

~Cornel West

Topics: Bear Between Corporate Court Decisions Goes Greed Know Often Relation Supreme Supreme Court Today Too Want Witness

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I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

~Cornel West

Topics: Am Because Black Excited Needs President Real Shattered Supremacy White I Am

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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

Topics: Becomes Between Corporate Country Deal Every Government Needs Permanent President Questions Relationship Street Wall Wall Street

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Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

~Cornel West

Topics: Black Die Fire Freedom Indignation Live Others Prophetic Results Righteous Suffering Willingness

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Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

~Cornel West

Topics: Against Burning Certain Fire Kind Longer Means Pushed Really Soul Tolerate Wall

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When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.

~Cornel West

Topics: Accommodation Appears Beautiful Become Black Case Defer Fire Intelligent Less Lose Moral More Much People Producing Quo Rationalize Result Status Status Quo Teach Tied White You Your

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I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

~Cornel West

Topics: Christian Coltrane Disciple Just Like Old

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: June 2nd, 1953

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