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Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
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
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
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
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
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
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
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
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
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised

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