Progressives Quotes

• Just as altruism tells an individual that however much he is sacrificing, his duty is to sacrifice more, the Progressives concluded that however much Americans were giving, morality required them to give more.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Morality
  • Americans
  • Altruism

• Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.

  

  Ezra G. Levin
  • Believe
  • Vote
  • Donald Trump

• The Democratic Party has to be run by progressives... because we can't let another monster like Donald Trump win again... even if we seem impolite in our fight back against him.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Win
  • Donald Trump
  • Let

• Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.

  

  Urvashi Vaid
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• I think the rise of progressives is the biggest storyline there is, whether it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Kara Eastman or Randy Bryce, Richard Ojeda - real populist progressives that are willing to actually fight for the progressive message rather than the lukewarm establishment Democrats.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Rise
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Kara Eastman

• We need to find a new way forward. There are keys ways progressives can speak.

  

  Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • Speak
  • Forward
  • Progressives