Bill Moyers Messages

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

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.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

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.

Our children are being raised by appliances.