Amy Goodman Quotes

#1. I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

Ellen Page

#2. The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

Amy Goodman

#3. In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Amy Goodman

#4. As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

Amy Goodman

#5. Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

Amy Goodman

#6. The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

Martin Luther

#7. I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

Amy Goodman

#8. The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Amy Goodman

#9. Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all.

Rajneesh

#10. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes ... reach the light of day?

Amy Goodman

#11. Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

Amy Goodman

#12. The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Hisham Matar

#13. Sometimes you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And other times you know what that feeling is of hurt, of love, of anger, of depression, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.

Dianna Agron

#14. If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#15. War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

#16. We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

Amy Goodman

#17. Go to where the silence is and say something.

Amy Goodman

#18. My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life, searching for the door that will guide me to my reality, I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there.

Lionel Suggs

#19. Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Amy Goodman

#20. The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future of listener-powered community radio.

Amy Goodman

#21. I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.

Brad Pitt

#22. Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor. (Savings). Prepare your soil for new seeds. (Investments)

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#23. Peace is not something petty, created by the mind; it is enormously great, infinitely extensive, and it can be understood only when the heart is full.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. The media - stenographers to power.

Amy Goodman

#25. We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Amy Goodman

#26. [The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

Amy Goodman

#27. I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

Amy Goodman

#28. People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

Amy Goodman

#29. Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Amy Goodman

#30. If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Amy Goodman

#31. A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Amy Goodman

#32. They wanted to know, you see. They were afraid that with our typical Austrian faces, we might be able to pass. They didn't want to be fooled. Even then, in the 1920s, they wanted to be able to tell who was a Jew.

Edith Hahn Beer

#33. Go where there is silence and say something.

Amy Goodman

#34. [The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

Amy Goodman

#35. But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it - everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' - you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Amy Goodman

#36. At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

Betty Shine