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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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