Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
James Allen "Jim" Hightoweris an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 January 1943
CountryUnited States of America
Jim Hightower quotes about
offense played youth
I think it was just a combination of the two. We played pretty well on defense, and their youth really showed. Just like our youth showed on offense at times. But I'm very pleased. We haven't been 1-0 in a long time.
campaign convert defense legal million raised
He can take his campaign funds, which he raised more than a million bucks, and now convert that into his legal defense fund.
aunt basketball labor lives morning player school street
His aunt lives right down the street from school and he had been to STM before as a player in our Sunkist basketball tournament, ... He showed up the morning of our Labor Day practice.
mistakes
We just made a lot of mistakes in the jamboree,
hotel-lobby government corporations
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
democracy culture ongoing
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.
speaking-up democracy principles
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.
speaks-out matter speak
If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
against compete football handle people places ways
We're a very young football team. We have a long ways to go before we can compete against the better people on our schedule. We have a young offense, particularly in places that handle the ball.
american-activist middle stripe
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
populist
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
american-activist
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?