#de

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#lines #middle #road #yellow

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

#between #deposit #difference #farmer #john

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

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

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

#building #culture #democracy #election #event

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. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#battling #code #countryside #down #economic

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#else #idea #no idea #something #too

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 #bush #disaster #failed #farm

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#created #damage #day #declares #demanded

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#government #inside #make #outsiders #progressive

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#english #included #japan #lost #lots