It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
BILL MOYERSIt’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
BILL MOYERSCharity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy 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.
BILL MOYERSIf 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.
BILL MOYERSI 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.
BILL MOYERSThis “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
BILL MOYERSHow do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
BILL MOYERSBeauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
BILL MOYERSBig money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
BILL MOYERSI’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
BILL MOYERSJournalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
BILL MOYERSThe 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.
BILL MOYERSThe printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
BILL MOYERSOur media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
BILL MOYERSHe even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
BILL MOYERSThe 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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