Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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He 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.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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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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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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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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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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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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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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