Progressive Quotes - Page 32

• The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Circles, October Revolution, West

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

  Kenneth Coutts-Smith

  Artist, Details, Research

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

  Gabriel Byrne

  Husband, Divorce, Rights

  "A Minute With: Gabriel Byrne's TV Viking chieftain". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm cases are irrelevant, but you have to focus on the values the framers were trying to protect, not on the means with which those values were invaded in the 18th century.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Mean, Thinking, Justice

  Source: www.slate.com

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