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The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
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For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
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Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.
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I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
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