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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.Jim Hightower
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If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.Jim Hightower
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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.Jim Hightower
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.Jim Hightower
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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.Jim Hightower
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If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?Jim Hightower
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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.Jim Hightower
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'Jim Hightower
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.Jim Hightower
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Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.Jim Hightower
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.Jim Hightower
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Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.Jim Hightower
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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.Jim Hightower
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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.Jim Hightower
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Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.Jim Hightower
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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.Jim Hightower
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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.Jim Hightower
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The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.Jim Hightower
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