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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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We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
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
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Children Long People
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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Ignorance Party Political
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
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

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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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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