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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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Baptists Culture Religious
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
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
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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Reality Thinking Views
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
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
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
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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