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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.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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