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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
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the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
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