Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
BILL MOYERSBut what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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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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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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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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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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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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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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