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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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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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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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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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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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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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The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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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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America is the longest argument in the world.
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Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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