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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Wealth inequality has increased.
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I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.
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You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
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I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.
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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
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Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
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If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
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