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When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.
When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.
Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
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- Cornel West
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- Approximate author period: c. 1953 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Cornel West: documented birth year 1953; activity date not established. Wikidata Q712469, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712469 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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