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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.

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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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Ignorance Party Political
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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Giving Grow Up Together
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Couple Reality Religion
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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might Pay Strength
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth

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