Progressive Action Quotes

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?

Do the day’s work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don’t be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don’t be a demagogue. Don’t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don’t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don’t hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.

Conservatives must move from stop to go, from making points to making change.

There's never been a time when we've taken progressive action and regretted it.

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

I think the thing that you've seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn't - he doesn't look to the past and say, 'I've got to conform to these precedents.'

The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly, boldly, and completely.

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.