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29 quotes by Jim Hightower

James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

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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.

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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... →

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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

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If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

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If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

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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... →

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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.

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

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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... →

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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

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