Progressive Quotes

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.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

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.

The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

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

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision. And, again, that would be true of candidates on all levels. It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

In the case of Michael Moore, having a deep, I'd even say passionate, understanding of other types of people in America who might be progressive thinkers without even realizing it.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

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

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

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.

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.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.