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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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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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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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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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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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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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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