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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.

Bill Moyers

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
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
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
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
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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Creativity Scientist
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
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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Angry Bears Country
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
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

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