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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.

Bill Moyers

Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Commitment Justice
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
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
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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Done Lessened Right Think
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Barack 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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Country Law Men President Strong
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology

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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