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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.

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Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
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
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
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
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
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
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
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
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
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
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
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

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