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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 Moyers

Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
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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Democracy Economy Greed
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
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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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want

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.

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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.

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