#progressive

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#campaigns #efforts #elections #enormous #everything

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#government #inside #make #outsiders #progressive

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#american #artistic #body #damaging #disgusting

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#any #cute #divine #divine love #drawn

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law