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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Bill Moyers

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
The 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.
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Gorges Unyielding War
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
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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might Pay Strength
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television

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