Excerpt from Paul Rogat Loeb’s Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times.  For classroom or course-pack use, go to the Copyright Clearance Center, type in Soul of a Citizen and pay the equivalent of ten book pages from Soul. [Just enter 1-10 on the page number form. If you only use part of the piece, or want to mix it with other Soul excerpts, you can figure out the page count based on 360 words per Soul page]  For other uses contact the St Martins permission department. [Parts of this piece were reprinted in Utne Reader, but St Martin’s holds the copyright].

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