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But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creativity Scientist
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
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
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
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
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 believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Believe Media Trust
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
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
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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Causes Doe Fighting
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
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

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