What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
BILL MOYERSThere 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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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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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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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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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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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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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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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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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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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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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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