I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
BILL MOYERSWhat’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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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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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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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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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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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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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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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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