War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
BILL MOYERSCharity 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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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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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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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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Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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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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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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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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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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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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