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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .

Bill Moyers

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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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People Pills President
Although 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.
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Baptists Culture Religious
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
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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Grassroots People Thinking
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
The 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.
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Empires Media Radio
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
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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Circles Enough Land Tribe War

I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .

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