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Bill Moyers

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Children Long People
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
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Jobs People Trying
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
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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Thinking Warrior Winning

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