We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.
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I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
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I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.
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We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.
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Realities are greater than ideas. Because sometimes ideas can separate us unnecessarily. So let's attend to the realities that we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. That's what I want to do.
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We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people.
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We are an immigrant nation.
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I would say the synodal church is like the word itself. It is 'a going on the way together,' and it is a way - whenever people walk, there are people who have been that way before who know that others have been that way before, and so they try to give direction.