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Quotes About Progressive

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.
~ John F. Kennedy
One of the beautiful things about the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it is progressive in its revelation and application.
~ John G. Lake
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I shall not grow conservative with age.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It was not the last time a well-meaning American Progressive would express the view that if only we made our good intentions plain, the opposition of our foes would melt away.
~ Arthur Herman
The Progressive president was also a keen white supremacist and insisted on segregating the U.S. Army in the same way he had most of the federal government
~ Arthur Herman
Their actions highlight the curious self-righteousness of the American Progressive mind, and the belief among Progressives that their views once arrived at were beyond criticism; as with Wilson, opposition itself became a sign of disloyalty, even of evil.29
~ Arthur Herman
However, all of these "progressive" goals now require the unraveling of Western hegemony. Western civilization, once the driving force of human progress, is now treated as its greatest obstacle.
~ Arthur Herman
There had been three priests, proponents of so-called liberation theology. They had opposed the reactionary tide from Rome. And in all three cases the IEA had done the dirty work for Iwaszkiewicz and his Congregation. Corona, Ortega, and Souza were prominent progressive priests working in marginal dioceses, poor districts of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. They believed in saving man here on earth, not waiting for the Kingdom of Heaven.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Prat de la Riba: Dos Españas: la periférica, viva, dinámica, progresiva, y la central, burocrática, adormecida, yerma. La primera es la viva, la segunda la oficial.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.
~ Ryan Phillippe
I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.
~ Cenk Uygur
The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
~ Woodrow Wilson
I'm not a reactionary.
~ Renee Fleming
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
~ William J. Brennan, Jr.
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'
~ John Krasinski
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.
~ John Krasinski
I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.
~ Arjen Robben
I think Bernie Sanders is a realist.
~ Linda Sarsour
Hot Gossip were revolutionary in some of the dance they did in the 1970s.
~ Arlene Phillips
The problem is the far left isn't very good at governing.
~ Margaret Hoover
We had a gay marriage on 'Will & Grace' in 2000, 2001. And I was like, 'Gay marriage?' I mean, it was just really early.
~ Megan Mullally
We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.
~ Savion Glover