People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
BILL MOYERSBeauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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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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Although 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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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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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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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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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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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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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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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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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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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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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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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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