During the prairie revolt that swept the Great Plains in 1890, populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease exclaimed, “Wall Street owns the country…. Money rules…. Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us." — Bill Moyers
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But we are [Christ's] people. We have eaten at his table. We have heard his word. We are identified as the odd ones in the world, called to be at odds with the world, ordained to call into questio… — Walter Brueggemann