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Jim Hightower

American

January 11, 1943

Activist

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

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

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

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But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

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Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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