Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
BILL MOYERSBarack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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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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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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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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