Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
BILL MOYERSLyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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 MOYERSThere 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.
BILL MOYERSAmerica is the longest argument in the world.
BILL MOYERSYou do it because there’s a story to be told. 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.
BILL MOYERSThe quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
BILL MOYERSI really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
BILL MOYERSHow do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
BILL MOYERSWhen ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
BILL MOYERSAs a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
BILL MOYERSUnless 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.
BILL MOYERSIt’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
BILL MOYERSThis “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
BILL MOYERSAlthough I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
BILL MOYERSHyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERSPeople who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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