Zitat des Tages von Jim Hightower:
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
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.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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 issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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.
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
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.
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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.