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The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.