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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
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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Believe Media Trust
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Circles Enough Land Tribe War
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
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.
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Reality Thinking Views
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People

What’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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