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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

Bill Moyers

The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
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
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
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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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Grassroots People Thinking
He 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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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
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
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
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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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television

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