Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
BILL MOYERSProfessionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
BILL MOYERSWe 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.
BILL MOYERSThey’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
BILL MOYERSThe thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
BILL MOYERSStanding up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
BILL MOYERSWe don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
BILL MOYERSI hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
BILL MOYERSJon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
BILL MOYERSI’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
BILL MOYERSThe corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
BILL MOYERSThe fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
BILL MOYERSIn 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.
BILL MOYERSThe Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
BILL MOYERSWhen a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
BILL MOYERSThe printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
BILL MOYERSFreedom 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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