QUOTE A DAY - January 20, 2015

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
The central role of mass media, especially a corporate media beholden to the US neoliberal regime is to keep public discourse narrow and deodorized.
--Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"

[T]he Obama presidency has been primarily a Wall Street presidency, drone presidency, mass surveillance presidency...
--Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"

The unprecedented historical symbolism of the first Black president has misled many if not most Black people to downplay his substantial neoliberal policies...
--Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
To sell one's soul for a mess of Obama pottage is to trash the priceless Black prophetic tradition. Is it not hypocritical to raise one's voice when pharaoh is white but have no critical word to say when the pharaoh is Black?
--Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"

If the boot is on our neck, does it make a difference what color the foot is in the boot?
--Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"

What does it profit a people for a symbolic figure to gain presidential power if we turn our backs from the suffering of poor working class people, and thereby lose our souls.
--Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

ANSWER: Plato

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