The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
Jim Hightower
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- The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- 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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