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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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slavery
morality
barack-obama
obama-inaguration
obama-speeches
preacher
martin-luther-king-jr
unitarianism
sermons
atheism
justice
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Theodore Parker |
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The job facing American voters... in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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hope
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choosing
civic-duty
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gun-violence
making-choices
mitt-romney
political-awareness
political-responsibility
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the-future
social-awareness
legacies
barack-obama
police-reform
police-shootings
voting
xenophobia
political-philosophy
patriotism
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Aberjhani |
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Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine's memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.
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amazon-com
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clinton
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morcan
the-ninth-orphan
the-orphan-trilogy
microsoft
google
facebook
barack-obama
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
hillary-clinton
bill-clinton
george-w-bush
tony-blair
thriller
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James Morcan |
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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
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bravery
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affordable-care-act
health-care-reform
health-care
barack-obama
united-states-elections-2008
united-states
cowardice
power
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Tariq Ali |
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Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member states 'to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attacks. It added that 'those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of those acts will be held accountable.' In a speech the following month, the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan publicly acknowledged the right of self-defense as a legitimate basis for military action. The SEAL unit dispatched by President Obama to Abbottabad was large enough to allow for the contingency of bin-Laden's capture and detention. The naive statement that he was 'unarmed' when shot is only loosely compatible with the fact that he was housed in a military garrison town, had a loaded automatic weapon in the room with him, could well have been wearing a suicide vest, had stated repeatedly that he would never be taken alive, was the commander of one of the most violent organizations in history, and had declared himself at war with the United States. It perhaps says something that not even the most casuistic apologist for al-Qaeda has ever even attempted to justify any of its 'operations' in terms that could be covered by any known law, with the possible exception of some sanguinary verses of the Koran.
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united-states
law
justice
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assassination
self-defense
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Christopher Hitchens |
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"Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you
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racism
politics
african-americans
plantation
barack-obama
martin-luther-king-jr
hillary-clinton
iowa
new-hampshire
united-states-elections-2008
george-w-bush
united-states
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