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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
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
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Class Country Men People
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
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
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
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
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
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
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
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
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality

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