America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
BILL MOYERSProfessionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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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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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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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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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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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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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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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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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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