“Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”
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The claim is that you cannot wall off your deepest convictions from public life; the values that guide you privately have to show up in how you vote, work, and treat strangers. Ethics stays abstract until it touches shared decisions.
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- A manager who prizes honesty refuses to fudge the quarterly numbers even under pressure.
- A voter researches candidates' records instead of treating an election as separate from daily ethics.
- A shop owner pays fair wages because the values she holds at home apply at the counter too.