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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

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Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

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The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 11th, 1943

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