Alice Walker Quotes

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

My retirement will make no difference in [the newspaper’s] cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

The media are the opposition party.

I put my energy, voice, and spirit into fighting for anybody who wants to speak their voice. I don't care what the right wing, the left wing, or the chicken wing has to say.

Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.

I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.