progressivism quotes

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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

Colin Powell

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Dalai Lama

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Michelle Obama

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Franklin D. Roosevelt