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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

~Jim Hightower

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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

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There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 11th, 1943

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