We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the connection between corporate greed and the influence it has on Supreme Court rulings.
Cornel West emphasizes the detrimental impact of corporate greed on the justice system, suggesting that such financial interests can sway important legal decisions at the highest level. The quote calls for awareness and accountability regarding the intersection of wealth and law, indicating that the integrity of the judicial system may be compromised by monetary influences.
In practice
In a discussion on corporate influence in politics, one could say, 'As Cornel West noted, we want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and Supreme Court decisions.'
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.
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
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