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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

Bill Moyers

I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
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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Blood Dream Fighting
They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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Hands Heart Over
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
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
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
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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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
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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Animal Ark Expensive God Interception Men
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team

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