Sentences with phrase «believe ordinary citizens»

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Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

To change society, I believe, ideas have to descend from the lofty empyrean of economists and philosophers to the common or garden world of ordinary citizens talking to and learning from each other.

Diplomats from New Zealand to the Maldives said they believe the vicious assaults on ordinary citizens are precisely the reason the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the U.N. climate convention must still convene as planned.

As Democrats would do well to remember, the President who they celebrate every year in Jefferson Jackson day dinners, Andrew Jackson, believed that any ordinary citizen was equally fit for any public office.

Mr. Johnnie Cochran believed he could make a difference in the world, and he did by representing ordinary citizens!

His recommendations, which he believed would improve the ordinary citizen's access to justice, included the introduction of simpler unified rules, more court control, free advice for litigants in person and greater use of information technology.

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