It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
BILL MOYERSCharity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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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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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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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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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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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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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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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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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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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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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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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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