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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
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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Determine Embedded Moral Quiet Street
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
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
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Circles Enough Land Tribe War
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
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
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People

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