All of us at Free Speech For Persons are deeply saddened by the information of Invoice Moyers’s passing. Invoice was a rare human being. His legendary work as a journalist for greater than 4 many years, as a detailed advisor and press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, and as a brave champion for our democracy all made an indelible mark on our nation and on the world. Invoice was unafraid of confronting corruption in authorities, of exposing the hazards of concentrated wealth on a democratic society, and of talking fact to energy. He was passionate and compassionate, and he celebrated on a regular basis folks for standing up for justice, for human dignity, and for the promise of political equality for all.
Invoice was additionally a particular good friend to Free Speech For Folks. Together with his assist, because the President of the Schumann Heart for Media and Democracy, Free Speech For Folks was in a position to launch on the day of the US Supreme Courtroom’s ruling in Residents United v. FEC in January 2010. Invoice acknowledged the menace the Courtroom’s ruling posed to our democracy, and he was the primary to affix us in assist of a constitutional modification to overturn that ruling and the fabricated doctrines underlying that call of firms being handled as folks with constitutional rights and of cash equaling speech. He remained a steadfast supporter by the years of all of our work within the protection of our republic. We’re eternally grateful for his friendship and his management. We shared collectively the imaginative and prescient, together with thousands and thousands of individuals throughout the nation, of a multiracial democracy that works for all, not simply the rich few. We are going to march on for this imaginative and prescient, figuring out that he would need us to maintain preventing.
We ship our deepest sympathies to Invoice’s household throughout this troublesome time. Might his spirit stay on with all of us all over the world whose lives he touched.
