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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers

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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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
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
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Animal Ark Expensive God Interception Men
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
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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Believe People Thinking
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
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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
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
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
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
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 we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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