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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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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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The media isn't only asleep it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
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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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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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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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Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
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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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The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
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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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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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