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.
BILL MOYERSIdeas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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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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But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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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 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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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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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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When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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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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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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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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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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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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If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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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 see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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