Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
BILL MOYERSHe 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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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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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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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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