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Bill Moyers

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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Reality Thinking Views
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Couple Reality Religion
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.
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Freedom Hands Writing
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 a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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Consideration President Resolution Round
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Commitment Justice
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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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
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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Done Lessened Right Think
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
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching

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