Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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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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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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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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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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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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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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