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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Denison
Texas
James Hightower
James Allen 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.
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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, 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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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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