Jim Hightower's Profile
Brief about Jim Hightower: By info that we know Jim Hightower was born at 1943-01-11. And also Jim Hightower is American Activist.
Some Jim Hightower's quotes. Goto "Jim Hightower's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Control, Political, PowerThe good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
Tags: Good, Political, TogetherThere'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.
Tags: Finance, Living, SuccessWhat's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Tags: House, White, WorkingThe opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Tags: Courage, Dead, FishThe corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
Tags: Anymore, Government, LobbyThe only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Tags: American, Between, TodayDemocracy 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.
Tags: Democracy, Lives, TimeIf you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
Tags: Matter, Matters, SpeakSo now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
Tags: Democracy, Time, ValueWhat 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.
Tags: Democracy, Mother, ToughYou can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
Tags: Force, Government, InsidePopulism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
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