Progressive Quotes - Page 28

• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  Helen Keller

  Character, Support, Democracy

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• Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Ideas, Progress

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• Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Distance, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Powerful, Past, Self

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• When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

  Phil Ehart

  Rocks, Labels, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

  Jane Fonda

  Names, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

  Tom Morello

  People, Peaceful, Progressive Society

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Names, Deterioration, Rotting

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• It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

  Robert W. Welch, Jr.

  Income, Firsts, Program

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• Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

  Bear Grylls

  Gay, Should, Scouting

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Two, Historical, Different

  "The Development of Capitalism in Russia". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter VIII: "The Formation of the Home Market", www.marxists.org. 1899.

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• Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.

  Hooman Majd

  Attitude, Media, Iran

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• What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

  Criss Jami

  Men, People, Vision

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• So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

  Billy Sherwood

  Dad, Guy, Band

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Views, Democrat

  BBC's "Question Time", September 18, 2008.

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• I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

  Clint Eastwood

  Fun, Hunting, Ideas

  "New Again: Clint Eastwood". Interview with Graham Fuller and Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

  Tom Morello

  Country, Song, Struggle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Obfuscation, Entertainment, Conservative

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• But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

  Stephen Harper

  Past, People, Matter

  Stephen Harper's Speech to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

  Joel Bakan

  Embrace, Resources, Rescue

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• To advance from a nuanced dissent to a compelling vision, progressive policymakers should turn to the great mainstay of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy: liberal internationalism... (which) should offer assertive leadership - diplomatic, economic, and not least, military - to advance a broad array of goals.

  Suzanne Nossel

  Military, Goal, Vision

  "Smart Power" by Suzanne Nossel, www.foreignaffairs.com. March/April 2004.

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• I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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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, Grew

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

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• A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Men

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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