Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
BILL MOYERSAlthough 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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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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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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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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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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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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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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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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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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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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