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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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Always Blind Fact Ideology Politicians
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
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
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
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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Empires Media Radio
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
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
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
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology

What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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