155 Quotes About Progressive



  • Author Jason Hickel
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    Progress in human welfare has been driven by progressive political movements and governments that have managed to harness economic resources to deliver robust public goods and fair wages. In fact, the historical record shows that in the absence of these forces, growth has quite often worked against social progress, not for it.

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  • Author Tim Kreider
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    Throughout this essay I’m afraid I’ll be using the terms ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’, and ‘the left’ not quite interchangeably but pretty indistinctly. ... ‘Progressives’ are what liberals call themselves now that ‘liberal’ is a slur ... and as far as I can tell ‘leftists’ are liberals who get mad if you call them liberals because liberals are all bourgeois patsies of The Man.

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  • Author John Dewey
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    Just because traditional education was a matter of routine in which the plans and programs were handed down from the past, it does not follow that progressive education is a matter of planless improvisation.

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  • Author Theodore Roosevelt
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    Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

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