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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
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
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
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
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
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
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
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
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want

What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

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