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.

S. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976 he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer. Senate bid of Doris "Granny D" Haddock a friend and fellow activist who was running as a Democrat against incumbent Republican Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11 1943) is an American syndicated columnist liberal political activist and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.