Progressive Quotes - Page 9

• It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went in with. I made a couple of mistakes, I will honestly admit. In retrospect, there are a few votes I wish I could take back. But, through it all, I kept my support for organized labor, I kept my support for income equality, I kept my support for making sure that kids that come from poor families have access to education. So, yes, I still believe that you don't have to give up your ideals and go along. One person can still stand up and make a difference.

  Tom Harkin

  Giving Up, Couple, Mistake

  Source: progressive.org

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• For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sake, Lasts, Relevant

  Source: progressive.org

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• When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.

  Tom Harkin

  Country, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: progressive.org

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• Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U.S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states with Israel as the one exception.

  Amira Hass

  Ocean, Islands, Israel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My own personal sound is really progressive. It's like a mixture of gospel, pop, neo-soul, R&B. It's like a huge gumbo. If you're eating gumbo you grab a whole like cup full of whatever. You're getting a whole bunch of stuff that makes this amazing food in your mouth. So that's essentially kind of like what my sound is.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Soul, Cups, Sound

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• On many, many issues, Hillary Clinton's views are progressive. In many areas, they are awesome. Where they're not progressive, we've got to push her, and the day after the election, I will mobilize millions of people to make sure that we make her the most progressive president that she can be.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, Issues, People

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.

  Wole Soyinka

  Struggle, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.

  Tony Blair

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.

  Eugene Puryear

  Thinking, People, Movement

  Source: www.slate.com

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• When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Stories, Want, Messages

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.

  Edward Albee

  School, Play, Numbers

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.

  James Traficant

  Retail, Income, Irs

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• With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, Real, Party

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Childhood, Important

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better... they're better people, right? They're segregated. It's self segregated in some cases, but there's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Self, People

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• We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.

  John Petrucci

  Mean, America, Australia

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That was when we released our second album, 'Images And Words', and it was something people werent used to hearing maybe, and it sort of rose above all that somehow, being progressive, or whatever.

  John Petrucci

  People, Rose, Albums

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

  John Petrucci

  Father, Real, Play

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• The good thing about playing this style that we play, you know, the progressive element of it, is that we can add in different elements of different styles. And that creates a more interesting overall sound.

  John Petrucci

  Play, Interesting, Style

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Done, Likes, Things Done

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Social, Committed

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• Boundaries are shifting between work and the rest of life for men and for women at different life stages. Work is becoming home and home is becoming work. The progressive CEOs who grasp this emergent reality and adjust to embrace it will be at a competitive advantage in the marketplace for talent.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Home, Reality, Men

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party - the more centrist wing of the party. I think we can craft an approach that is more American, pro-worker, pro-business, pro-growth.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.politico.com

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