How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
BILL MOYERSI’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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