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
BILL MOYERSJournalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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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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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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Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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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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America is the longest argument in the world.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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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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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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