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

Bill Moyers

Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
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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Fire House Years
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
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
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
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
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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Empires Media Radio
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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Giving Grow Up Together
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
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

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