"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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Source : "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

Jim Hightower

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