Progressive Views Quotes

I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left.

My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie stuff, and I would put myself on a social justice leftie side, is some of the terminology is jargon.

I think it's really progressive to talk about race in relationships. I think there is so much room for that, and there needs to be more of it.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

I would put myself towards left of center.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

I have been left-wing always, from childhood.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

I had a very liberal family.