Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. - William Greider

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Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No. " He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.

William Greider

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

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Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

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Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

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A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

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