Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
BILL MOYERSThe thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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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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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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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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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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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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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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You do it because there’s a story to be told. 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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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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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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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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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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