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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

Bill Moyers

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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Always Blind Fact Ideology Politicians
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
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
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
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
To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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Determine Embedded Moral Quiet Street
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
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
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
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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Consideration President Resolution Round

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