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When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.

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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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
In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Facts May Prepared
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 Commitment Justice
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
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
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
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
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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Degenerate Governance Politics Seminal
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
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
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

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.

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When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.

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