Gratitude operates like resentment. When we find ourselves in a position of owing—and people in a democratic society always owe something to other people—we may become vulnerable to control.
Eric C. Miller
Eric C. Miller is a Professor of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of The Rhetoric of
The idea that people’s religious views should be neither an advantage or a disadvantage under the law.
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in the United States (Lexington, 2017).