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To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
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
It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Grassroots People Thinking
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Commitment Gone Information
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart

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