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You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

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The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

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The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

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Violence is not the problem; it is a consequence of the problem.

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Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong.... The answer to bad religion is better religion—prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

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The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

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If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jim Wallis

Jim Wallis

Born: June 4, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Jim Wallis is a Christian writer and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and as the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name.
Known for:
  1. God's Politics (2005)
  2. The callto conversion (1981)

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