Jim Hightower Quotes

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

People power. It has no limits.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

There is no power above people power.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.