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David K. Shipler is an American author known for his profound insights into global political and social issues. His works often focus on themes of inequality, poverty, and human rights.

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“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.”

Political Patriotic Skepticism Civics American

Book:The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

Source: The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

“Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.”

Self Use Lying Taught Court Tricks Permit Officers Amendments Fifth Scope Shields Fifth Amendment

Author:David K. Shipler

“If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.”

Ifs Believe May Hard Done Intuition Innocent Locked Confession Threatened Locked Up Hard To Believe

Author:David K. Shipler

“Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.”

Matter States Law Political President Policy Areas Affair Law Enforcement Enforcement Spectrum Political Spectrum Domestic Policy

Author:David K. Shipler

“Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.”

Certain Left Force Social Liberty Military Program Behave Civil Liberties Military Force Social Programs

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“If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.”

Ifs Seems Nations Tasks Protection Borders Customs Officers Staff Airports Passports

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“Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.”

Fit Office Caricatures Oval

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“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”

Lying Civilization Diversity Constant Ruins Intolerance Rebuilding Coexistence

Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.”

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Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.”

Age Spiritual Song Culture Delicate Sigh Festivals Jerusalem Robust Psalms Lamentation Junction

Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.”

Important Sometimes Hands Eye Jobs Leaving Affair Performing Dramatic Magician Unnoticed Important Jobs Foreign Affairs

Author:David K. Shipler

“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.”

Democracy Cures Sunlight Rejected

Author:David K. Shipler

“Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”

Wells Whole America Fall Poverty Struggle Essentials Workers Forgotten Edges Prosperity Treated Well Being Ashamed Cliffs Daily Struggle

Book:The Working Poor: Invisible in America

Source: The Working Poor: Invisible in America

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Born: December 3, 1942
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Quotes: 13

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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised LandRelated source material

The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our LibertiesRelated source material

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