Progressive Change Quotes

• Business can be a source of progressive change.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Progressive, Source

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• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Change, America, Political

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.216, Random House

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• On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

  Wim Wenders

  Change, Ideas, People

  ""The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain"". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

  Washington Irving

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

  'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

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• There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

  Washington Irving

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

  1824 Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

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• The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

  Wendell Phillips

  Christian, Truth, Real

  Wendell Phillips (1955). “Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia”

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• Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Peace, Justice, Democracy

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• A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

  Thomas Friedman

  Party, Sacred, Generations

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• The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Mistake, Errors

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.406, e-artnow

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• I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.

  Bill de Blasio

  Running, Office, Progressive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, Iowa, Cities

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, November 22, 2011.

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• Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

  Scarlett Johansson

  People, Voting, Want

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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