We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
BILL MOYERSConservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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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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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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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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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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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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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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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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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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