Progressive Movement Quotes:

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist

- Danny Glover

topic: War, Latin, Agreement, Latin America, Progressive Movement

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

- Anna Louise Strong

topic: Wings, Numbers, Groups, Left Wing, Progressive Movement

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

- Martha Plimpton

topic: Rights, Movement, Body, Progressive Movement

She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.

- Benjamin Carson

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: People, Movement, Facts, Uninformed, Taking Advantage

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Children, Pyramids, Issues, Politics And Economics, Progressive Movement

The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."

- Riane Eisler

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Strong, Kings, Past, Progressive Movement

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

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Party, Movement, Keith, Progressive Movement

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

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

topic: Sorry, Real, Party, Progressive Movement

We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.

- Ben Wikler

source: "What Should Bernie Sanders Do Next?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2016.

topic: Powerful, Party, Exercise, Progressive Movement, Three Ways

The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

- C. Vann Woodward

topic: Philosophy, Two, White, Blind Spots, Progressive Movement

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

- Unita Blackwell

topic: War, Writing, Government, Small Groups, Abolitionist

When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.

- Nur Muhammad Taraki

source: "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.

topic: Party, Class, Names, Tumors, Progressive Movement

Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.

- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

topic: Civilization, Appreciate, France, Progressive Movement

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States.

- Glenn Beck

topic: United States, Movement, Progressive, Progressive Movement

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

- Van Jones

topic: Powerful, Color, White, Environmental Problems, Progressive Movement

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Girl, Fun, Live Life, Justice And Love, Progressivism

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.

- Moby

topic: Crazy, Wings, Needs, Progressive Movement