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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
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
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Couple Reality Religion
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
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
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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 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
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
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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Jobs People Trying
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War

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