We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
BILL MOYERSI was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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