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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.

Bill Moyers

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
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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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
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
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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Consideration President Resolution Round
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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Democracy Mark Veins
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
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

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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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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