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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

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So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

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To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

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Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

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I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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