But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
BILL MOYERSThe rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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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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The 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
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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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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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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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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