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# 7 Dispirited Liberal America

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It will not be easy to light those fires. It may be improbable. But, in matters of the spirit, one does not say "impossible."

There's a battle that must be fought. And while the battlefield lies in the "political" arena," this battle -- like the ones improbably won by Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela - is ultimately at the level of the spirit.

In such matters, nothing is hopeless. Only if we yield to hopelessness do we make it so.

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