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" We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good. "
Cornel West
Good
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Community
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" We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people. "
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" You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. "
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" There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom. "
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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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" Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. "
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" I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight. "
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" Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences. "
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Free
Mind
" I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. "
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I Am
" We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. "
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" I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense, I'm very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a Malcolm X who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency. "
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Soul
Language
" There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference. "
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Social Change
Difference
Change
" Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is. "
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Color
Care
Look
" 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. "
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Suffering
Black
Fire
" It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. "
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Greed
Two
Street
" 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. "
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Government
Relationship
" Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid. "
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" There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama. "
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Hatred
" I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as a Christian. I'm committed to truth and justice. "
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Truth
Christian
Church
" 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, he's 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. "
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Man
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" We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. "
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Selling
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Society
" If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under. "
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" King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. "
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" I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' "
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" The problem is we need much more moral content. "
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" A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth. "
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" Black people have been working hard for decades. "
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Working Hard
Black
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" I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us. "
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Greed
Day
Every Day
" There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility. "
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Responsibility
Action
Always
" 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. "
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People
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