Words matter. These are the best Jim Hightower Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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.
Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.
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.
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
The corporations don’t have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
Populism is not a style, it’s a people’s rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country – including our economy, government, media, and environment.
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.
There’s nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
