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Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
Lawyer
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Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.
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