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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

Cornel West

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Smiley Water Way
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
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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Differences Fundamentals Organization
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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Country People Rights

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