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Bill Moyers

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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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Animal Ark Expensive God Interception Men
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
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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Charity Commitment Justice
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
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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Believe Media Trust
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
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
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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Empires Media Radio
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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Democracy Mark Veins

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