I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
BILL MOYERSAn unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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I 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.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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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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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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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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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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