Jim Hightower Quotes

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

The deck has always been stacked against me.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

The absence of shared sacrifice in this country shames us.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has made nothing equal; her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

I was kind of always the underdog.