#you

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#speaking #you #yourself

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#gained #includes #measure #others #success

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#gained #includes #measure #others #success

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

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#boy #day #fortune #got #large

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#going #populist #washington #you

You can't fake listening. It shows. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#listening #shows #you