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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. Claudio Hummes

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To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society. Clint Smith

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. Colin Powell

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society. Danny Kaye

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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. David Horowitz

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What we do as a society is seek simple answers. Dean Koontz

Simple Society Seek Answers

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place. Dennis Lehane

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. Dennis Prager

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. Desmond Tutu

You Peace Obligation Society Ways Laureate Nobel Many Humankind

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role. Dick Cheney

Government Problem Financial Society Only Federal Federal Reserve Got Fix Role Legitimate Agencies Regulator Mechanism Reserve Treasury

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. Dirk Kempthorne

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. Dorothy Fields

Mom Man Woman Mother Wife Society Enough Our Homemaker

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke

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What we've seen over the last decade is we've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society. Edward Snowden

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We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them. Edward Snowden

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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. Elfriede Jelinek

Construction Society Solidarity Paradoxically Kinds More Makes Susceptible Substitute

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice. Ellen Goodman

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Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. Elton Gallegly

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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. Emile Durkheim

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