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I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
~ Rick James
It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
~ Lucy Powell
Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years.
~ Antonio Villaraigosa
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
~ Robert Reich
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.
~ Douglas Hodge
That year the Louisiana Highway Department hired New York's Robert Moses, the one whom everyone revered as the most progressive highway planner in the nation, to address New Orleans's traffic problems. Moses' solution was to ring the city with multilaned expressways that would bring automobiles and trucks to the city's core.
~ Unknown
Liberal studies means..." said Mrs Chatterway, who prided herself on being an advocate of progressive education, in which role she had made a substantial contribution to the illiteracy rate in several previously good primary schools.
~ Tom Sharpe
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
~ Tori Amos
Trachtenberg once said to me," recalled Dodd in her memoir, "that when communism came to America it would come under the label of 'progressive democracy.' 'It will come,' he added, 'in labels acceptable to the American people.
~ Paul Kengor
The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement. We say the right things, but we fail to act on them because we want to feel virtuous without paying a price
~ Unknown
The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement.
~ Unknown
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
~ John Lennon
I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.
~ Jill Sobule
I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.
~ Kesh
Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.
~ Marco Pirroni
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
~ Bertrand Russell
The apogee of Progressive reforms came with the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Wilson noted in his 1913 book, The New Freedom, "If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I do not expect to see monopoly restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Newsrooms are now filled with progressive activists who bend the truth, as opposed to old-school professionals who feel a duty to both themselves and their audience.
~ Dave Rubin
So if you're a progressive liberal, you see America and the West in general as an oppressive, tyrannical regime bent on capitalist destruction and oppression. Conservatives, who generally view the world through more of a religious lens, want to maintain the hard-fought freedoms we have (civilization) while protecting them from the whims of the day (barbarism). Meanwhile, libertarians see big government and the political machine as the biggest threat to personal freedom.
~ Dave Rubin
The growth of the great antagonisms abroad was accompanied by the progressive aggravation of party strife at home.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Tak ada orang progresif yang berpikiran sehat akan menentang cita-cita komunis, yang mencakup bantuan di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Kami menyetujui ini semua. Tetapi aku tidak mungkin meninggalkan Tuhan. Aku tidak mungkin membuang nasionalisme dan aku tidak dapat membayangkan bagaimana aku bisa melepaskan diri dari sifat angkuh, jadi aku tidak mungkin menjadi seorang komunis.
~ Cindy Adams
He could see how this liberating condition could grow progressive. How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter. Returned
~ Lionel Shriver
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
~ Lionel Trilling