Jim Hightower

Activist

1943-01-11

Quotes by Jim Hightower

• So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

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• Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

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• The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

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• What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

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• But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

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• There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

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• But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

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• Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

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• There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

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• We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

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