Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERSOur media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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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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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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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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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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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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The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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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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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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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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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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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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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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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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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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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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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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