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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

Cornel West

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Belief Difference Strong
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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
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
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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate

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