113 Quotes by Jim Hightower

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

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

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.

There'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.

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

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

So 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.

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

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.