We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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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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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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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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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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