It is up to us to hold our country to its highest, and most humane, ideals
A Parable For Our Times
Bill Moyers: "It is up to the rest of us, who see the founding fathers not as gods but as inspired although flawed human beings—the hand that scribbled "All men are created equal" also stroked the breasts and thighs of a slave woman, whom he considered his property—to take on "the tendency of things " to "depart from the republican standard," and hold our country to its highest, and most humane, ideals."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1222-24.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Moyers
Bill Moyers: "It is up to the rest of us, who see the founding fathers not as gods but as inspired although flawed human beings—the hand that scribbled "All men are created equal" also stroked the breasts and thighs of a slave woman, whom he considered his property—to take on "the tendency of things " to "depart from the republican standard," and hold our country to its highest, and most humane, ideals."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1222-24.htm
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Moyers
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