Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
BILL MOYERSPeople who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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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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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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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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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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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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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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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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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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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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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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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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