Progressive Quotes - Page 17

• Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a decision before you have to. And that rule appears to have worked brilliantly for Democratic candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has avoided taking a position on the president's trade agenda and has remained out of the ugly public spat with the progressive wing of her party. She has also not taken a position on the Iranian - on the talks.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Taken, Wings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

  Adam McKay

  People, Musician, Directors

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

  Adam McKay

  America, Issues, Hollywood

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.

  Adam McKay

  America, People, Support

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.

  Sara Paretsky

  Kings, Home, Kids

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.

  David Maraniss

  Summer, Fall, Race

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Simple, Class, White

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Color, Moral, Blind

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Mastery

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• Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

  Justin Trudeau

  Canada

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Class

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.

  Arianna Huffington

  Gay, Gun, Rights

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• I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Gay, Mainstream Society, Rights

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I would love to have the endorsement of every progressive organization in America. We're very proud to have received recently the endorsement of MoveOn.org. We've received the endorsement Democracy for America. These are grassroots organizations representing millions of workers.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Organization, Democracy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.

  Astra Taylor

  Country, Struggle, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I liked the Beatles but I wasn't mad on the Stones. I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry and some of the old blues people, and they never seemed to change. If people compare me to Jagger and the Stones I would be the one to be put down ... I've been far more progressive than any of them.

  Cliff Richard

  Rip, People, Mad

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

  John Frusciante

  Sound, Doe, Pops

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• 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.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ideas, Mind, Adults

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• Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Knowledge, Science, Generations

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• 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.

  Benjamin Carson

  Pro Life, Black, Agendas

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• Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.

  Henry Giroux

  Educational, Issues, Political

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.

  Rachel Notley

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.

  Jim Shepard

  Mean, Exercise, Empathy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).

  John Owen

  Taken, Tree, Grace

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