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Progressive Society Quotes

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

Angela Davis
Art, People, Progressive Society
Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.200, Vintage

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Will Durant
Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society
Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Progressive Society, Imperfect
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Henry James Sumner Maine
Wisdom, Movement, Progressive Society
Ancient Law ch. 5 (1861)

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Tom Morello
People, Peaceful, Progressive Society
Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Doug Stanhope
Progressive Society, Progressive, Institutions

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

Ralph Nader
Two, Progressive Society, Way
Source: www.democracynow.org

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