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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
#American
#Difference
#Farmer
#Today
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
#Culture
#Democracy
#Election
#Know
#Time
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
- Jim Hightower
#Carry
#Going
#Hard
#Race
#Win
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
#Control
#Harmony
#Live
#Political
#Power
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
#Everything
#Finance
#Living
#Success
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
- Jim Hightower
#Arkansas
#Going
#Populist
#Washington
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
#Believe
#Disaster
#Hard
#New
#Speech
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
- Jim Hightower
#Corruption
#Delay
#Health
#Matter
#Tired
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.
- Jim Hightower
#Me
#Mother
#Right
#Three
#Two
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
#Agriculture
#Day
#Fortune
#Me
#Start
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
#Democracy
#Face
#King
#Rebellion
#Tough
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
- Jim Hightower
#Building
#Dog
#Even
#Leg
#Lift
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
- Jim Hightower
#Crazy
#Else
#No Idea
#Something
#Work
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
- Jim Hightower
#Matter
#Matters
#Now
#Speak
#Would
The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
- Jim Hightower
#Even
#Had
#Issue
#Just
#Wages
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
- Jim Hightower
#Dead
#Lines
#Middle
#Road
#Yellow
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
- Jim Hightower
#Journalism
#Only
#Politics
#Take
#Turn
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
- Jim Hightower
#About
#Bottom
#Politics
#Right
#Top
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
- Jim Hightower
#Dead
#Middle
#Nothing
#Road
#Yellow
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Jim Hightower
#Conformity
#Courage
#Dead
#Fish
#Go
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