The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
BILL MOYERSProfessionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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We 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.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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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 … .
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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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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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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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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.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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