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.
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 children are being raised by appliances.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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