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“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 Moyers

#Freedom #Writing #Hands
“In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness”
-- Bill Moyers

#Marriage #Wedding #Forgiving
“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. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Reality #Thinking #Views
“America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Cutting #One Direction #America
“Charity 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. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Commitment #Order #People
“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Dream #Freedom #Tyrants
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Creativity #Piercings #Mundane
“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.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Commitment #Justice #Tables
“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Motivational #Ideas #Arrows
“If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds”
-- Bill Moyers

#Thinking #Issues #People
“As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Teacher #Teaching #Students
“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.”
-- Bill Moyers

#People #Ethics #Stranger
“Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Justice #Charity #Tables
“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence . One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism . Those rules divide the world into Democrats & Republicans , liberals & conservatives , and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news , they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Jobs #Opportunity #Play
“Democracy works when people claim it as their own”
-- Bill Moyers

#People #Democracy #Claims
“Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Heart #Voting #Democracy
“I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Spiritual #Believe #Way
“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. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Children #Long #People
“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.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Trust #Believe #Democracy
“I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one”
-- Bill Moyers

#Believe #Texas #People
“Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.....”
-- Bill Moyers

#Believe #Teaching #Echoes
“I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Eagles #Wings #Two
“"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality - one nation, indivisible - or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others."”
-- Bill Moyers

#Spiritual #Powerful #Struggle
“When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Faith #People #Effort
“There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Honest #Politician #Journalist
“The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Country #Freedom #Responsibility
“Democracy only works when we claim it as our own”
-- Bill Moyers

#Democracy #Claims
“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Firsts #Monopoly #First Time
“When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.”
-- Bill Moyers

#Education #Home #Learning
“In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.”
-- Bill Moyers

#War #Land #Circles

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