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Quotes from Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America — Amy Goodman

born 1957 United States

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The young people at these climate summits have always amazed me with their eloquence and bravery.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

This bears repeating: the sixty-two wealthiest people-a group that could fit on a bus-control more wealth than three and a half billion people.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

We need a media that covers power, not covers for power.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

I believe the media can be the greatest force for peace on Earth. Instead, all too often, it is wielded as a weapon of war. That has to be challenged.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Our responsibility in independent media is to cover the entire discussion, from the suites to the streets.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

What gives me hope? It's the movements. Movements often start with a courageous act of resistance. These are not isolated acts. They are inspired by past movements. And they inspire future ones.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

We need to hear these silenced voices. That is the power of independent media: to give voice to the voiceless; to those who have been shut out of the debate.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

There is a hunger for authentic voices-not the same handful of pundits on the network shows who know so little about so much, explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Central to our reporting on climate change is the reality that global warming is real, is happening now, and is killing tens of thousands of people and displacing millions more. The warming planet presents an existential crisis for humanity.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Even in this high-tech digital age with high-definition television and digital radio, still all we get is static: that veil of distortion, lies, misrepresentations, and half-truths that obscure reality.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Why does the climate change debate continue in the United States? Because oil barons, such as the Koch brothers, pour billions of dollars into foundations and corporations that obfuscate the issue or deny the problem exists at all.

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amy Goodman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.