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.
BILL MOYERSThere 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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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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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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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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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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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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