We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.
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.
Democracy works when people claim it as their own
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
