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.
BILL MOYERSWhen ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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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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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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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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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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