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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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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
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
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
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Circles Enough Land Tribe War
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Commitment Gone Information

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