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About Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and co-founder (1996) and main host of Democracy Now!, a progressive global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet.
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“Hope lies in fighting back. (conclusion)”
“Those who are scorned today are tomorrow's visionaries. (conclusion)”
“That is one of the media's most serious responsibilities, to open up the discussion.”
“activists and peacemakers are everywhere. And they are changing how politics is done.”
“This is what independent media is all about: unembedded, investigative, international journalism.”
“We are a compassionate people. But people cannot take action if they don't have accurate information.”
“The Bush team has invoked a basic principle of propaganda: Control the images and you control the people.”
“Our responsibility in independent media is to cover the entire discussion, from the suites to the streets.”
“Free speech is democracy's last line of defense. We must demand it. Defend it. And most of all, use it-now.”
“When George W. Bush and his foot soldiers can't build an airtight legal case, suspicion and xenophobia will suffice.”
“Vibrant debate and dissent exist in this country, but you are not reading or hearing about this in the mainstream press.”
“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.”
“By stripping away the profit motive, by removing the Wall Street bankers from the picture, solid, disciplined, nonprofit journalism is possible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“imagine if the U.S. media showed uncensored, hellish images of war-even for one week. What impact would that have? I think we would be able to abolish war.”
“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.”
“The corporate media came late to Occupy Wall Street, offered superficial, often derogatory coverage, and, with a few exceptions, still haven't gotten it right”
“If you are opposed to war, you are not a fringe minority. You are not a silent majority. You are part of a silenced majority. Silenced by the mainstream media.”
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Amy Goodman on Peace 3 quotes
“peacemakers are everywhere. And they are changing how politics is done.”
Amy Goodman on Global warming 3 quotes
“The young people at these climate summits have always amazed me with their eloquence and bravery.”
Amy Goodman on War 3 quotes
“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.”
Amy Goodman on Change 2 quotes
View all 2 quotes on Change →Amy Goodman on Journalism 2 quotes
“Journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on power, not win popularity contests.”
Amy Goodman on Investigative journalism 2 quotes
“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 on Sharing 2 quotes
“The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading across the world at an unprecedented rate. The World Health Organization warns cases of the heavily mutated variant have been confirmed in 77 countries, and likely many others that have yet to detect it.With international infections climbing, the Biden administration is facing renewed demands to follow through on his now seven-month-old pledge to ensure companies waive intellectual property protections on coronavirus vaccines and share them with the world.”
Amy Goodman on Character assassination 2 quotes
“Conservative Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith blogged: “I find myself agreeing with those who think Assange is being unduly vilified ... it is not obvious what law he has violated. ... I do not understand why so much ire is directed at Assange and so little at The New York Times.” (WikiLeaks has partnered with several news organizations, including The New York Times, in its document releases.)... The U.S. Justice Department, if it pursues a case, will have to answer the question: If WikiLeaks is a criminal organization, what of its media partners, like The New York Times?"”
Amy Goodman on Injustice
“Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.”
Amy Goodman on Information
“people cannot take action if they don't have accurate information.”
Amy Goodman on Action
“people cannot take action if they don't have accurate information.”
What Amy Goodman Said About Others
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Amy Goodman on Dick Cheney 3 quotes
“Vice President Dick Cheney made it clear who was setting the environmental agenda when he huddled behind closed doors with his former colleagues in the oil industry in early 2001 and virtually allowed them to write a new national energy policy to their liking. The result: the 2005 Energy Bill, which gave $16 billion in subsidies to the oil, gas, and coal industries, recommended opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and natural gas drilling, deregulated the electricity market, subsidized building new nuclear power plants, and dumbed down fuel economy standards for SUVs and light trucks.”
Amy Goodman on Rupert Murdoch 2 quotes
“Murdoch runs his media empire in the US as an unvarnished political operation.”
Amy Goodman on John Lewis 2 quotes
“John Lewis eloquently linked racism at home and militarism abroad when he declared, "President Johnson sent soldiers to Vietnam, but he can't send federal troops to protect us in his own country, in Selma."”
Amy Goodman on Maya Angelou 2 quotes
“In remembering Maya Angelou, it is important to recall her commitment to the struggle for equality, not just for herself, or for women, or for African Americans. She was committed to peace and justice for all.”
Amy Goodman on LeBron James 2 quotes
“LA Lakers star LeBron James paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman before the Lakers playoff game against the Portland Trailblazers by taking a knee during the National Anthem and crossing his arms across his chest to give the Wakanda Forever salute.”
Amy Goodman on Chadwick Boseman 2 quotes
“LA Lakers star LeBron James paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman before the Lakers playoff game against the Portland Trailblazers by taking a knee during the National Anthem and crossing his arms across his chest to give the Wakanda Forever salute.”
Amy Goodman on Henry Kissinger 2 quotes
“Henry Kissinger. While many in the United States still see Nixon and Ford's former secretary of state as an elder statesman, the rest of the world sees him as a war criminal responsible for the deaths and suffering of millions in Chile, Vietnam, Laos, Argentina, East Timor, and Cambodia, to name a few.”
Amy Goodman on Jeremy Scahill 2 quotes
““Democrats have to engage in theater about human rights and international law and due process, but they ultimately, at the end of the day, are just as aggressive as Republicans,” says investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept. We end today’s show with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept. His latest article is headlined The War Party: From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier.”
Amy Goodman on Ban Ki-moon 2 quotes
“On December 12, 2015, official delegates and observers gathered in the plenary hall of COP21. It was there that the Paris Agreement was announced. The end result of decades of work, world leaders hailed it as a great success. "The Paris Agreement is a monumental triumph for people and our planet," UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon tweeted immediately after the closing gavel fell. Many environmental groups praised the outcome as well…Not everyone agreed.”
Amy Goodman on Kamala Harris 2 quotes
“At her first campaign event with Biden, Harris acknowledged “all the heroic and ambitious women before me whose sacrifice, determination and resilience makes my presence here today even possible”...Crusading anti-lynching journalist Ida B. Wells, labor organizer Lucy Parsons, civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm, Congressmember Barbara Jordan and countless other African American women leaders forged the path that Kamala Harris now walks, often at great risk and without recognition or reward.”
Amy Goodman on Chelsea Manning 2 quotes
“The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seeming delightful blood-lust the aerial weapons team happened to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life, and referred to them as quote-unquote 'dead bastards,' and congratulated each other on their ability to kill in large numbers. ... For me, this seemed similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass....I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained [in the leaks], it could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.''"”
Quotes About Amy Goodman
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Noam Chomsky on Amy Goodman
“Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis. She has tirelessly pursued the most challenging and hardest questions, relentlessly and courageously. She has made a unique contribution to creating the informed public that must exist if 'democracy now' is to be more than a dream."”
Chris Hedges included as blurb on Amy Goodman
“Amy Goodman is one of the most important voices in America. Her integrity and honesty remind us that a culture that cannot distinguish between illusion and reality dies.”
Ralph Nader on Amy Goodman
“Producing features on a diverse range of civic and political activities is far below NPR's and PBS's funder-friendly range of entertaining programs. On weekends, to counter the commercial vapidity and the ditto-head Sunday interview shows, PBS and NPR are just not there. They simply do not look for, or listen to, the rumble of people who are on the ground, acting with conscience, organizing to break through power. Meanwhile, smaller programs-such as Democracy Now with Amy Goodman-are picking up the slack of these larger outlets, despite their comparably modest budgets and staff size.”
Willie Nelson included as blurb on Amy Goodman
“She will go down in history as one of the voices of democracy's greatest champions.”
Adrienne Rich on Amy Goodman
“The poem was inflected, you could say, by interviews I was hearing on Amy Goodman’s program, Democracy Now!—about Guantánamo, waterboarding, official U.S. denials of torture, the “renditioning” of presumed terrorists to countries where they would inevitably be tortured. The line “Tonight I think no poetry will serve” suggests that no poetry can serve to mitigate such acts, they nullify language itself. One begins to write of the sensual body, but other bodies “elsewhere” are terribly present.”
Arundhati Roy on Amy Goodman 2 quotes
“Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! represent what journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit. Her work is invaluable.”
Bernie Sanders on Amy Goodman
“We received very fair coverage in our campaign from Thom Hartmann, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The folks at The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, and a number of other smaller publications and blogs also worked extremely hard to allow us to convey our message to the American people. Ed Schultz, the Reverend Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Hayes provided us with the very fair coverage we received on MSNBC. I was also pleased to have been on the Bill Moyers program on PBS on several occasions.”
Susan Sarandon on Amy Goodman
Cornel WestThe Silenced Majority on Amy Goodman
“A towering progressive freedom fighter in the media and the world.”
Howard Zinn on Amy Goodman
“Amy Goodman has carried the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I. F. Stone into the electronic age, creating a powerful counter to the mainstream media. Her programs have reached into homes across the country, educating a new generation of listeners on the realities of U.S. policy at home and abroad. The book she has done with her brother is a very welcome and important addition to the dissident literature of our time.”
Source on Amy Goodman 3 quotes
“You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday morning talk shows. That's because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power.”
About Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and co-founder (1996) and main host of Democracy Now!, a progressive global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet.