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We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#absolutely free #brief #called #experience #free

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#congress #could #frustrating #how #imagine

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

— Jim Hightower

#lines #middle #road #yellow

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#had #issue #jobs #just #slaves

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

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? ↗

— Jim Hightower

#matters #now #out #speak #would

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#corporations #government #lobby

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