Political progress

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Revolution do not stand still.

Rosa Luxemburg

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The only constant is change Revolution Political progress Politics

Author

Rosa Luxemburg

Source

The Beginning The Red Flag

Language

German

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." Die Rote Fahne [The Red Flag], 18 Nov. 1918.

Current Citation

Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. New York University Press, 2004.

Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Political theory Political progress Progress Politics

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech about the Representation of the People. House of Commons. 28 Feb. 1859, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Nature of progress Political progress Progress

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

Source

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Topic

Spanish Civil War Political progress Fascism

Author

George Orwell

Source

Homage to Catalonia

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The Who

Won't Get Fooled Again

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Disillusionment Nature of progress Political progress

Speaker

The Who

Source

Won't Get Fooled Again Who's Next

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Townshend, Peter. Won't Get Fooled Again. Performed by The Who. Track Records/Decca Records, 1971.

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

James Callaghan

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Political progress Progress

Speaker

James Callaghan

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Callaghan, James. Speech at a Labour Party Conference. Labour Party Conference. 28 Sept. 1976, Blackpool, England, UK.

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

Studs Terkel

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Hope Political progress Politics

Author

Studs Terkel

Source

Hope Dies Last

Genre

Historical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. New Press, 2003.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Felix Frankfurter

Baker v. Carr

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Topic

Political progress Theory of progress Democracy

Author

Felix Frankfurter

Source

Baker v. Carr

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. Baker v. Carr. United States Reports, vol. 369, 26 Mar. 1962, pp. 266-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/369/186/.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide... Whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Political progress Progress

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Carrie Chapman Catt

Source

Is Woman Sufferage Progressing?

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. 13 June 1911, Stockholm, Sweden.

History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.

Seamus Heaney

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Hope Political progress Progress

Author

Seamus Heaney

Source

The Cure at Troy

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles - Philoctetes. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1991.

It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending toward republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others.

Ulysses S. Grant

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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Spread of freedom and democracy America and the world Democracy Political progress

Speaker

Ulysses S. Grant

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1873, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The best way to get inside city hall is to make noise on the street.

Bhairavi Desai

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Topic

City politics Political progress Activism Politics

Speaker

Bhairavi Desai

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Desai, Bhairavi. Quoted in "Thin Yellow Line: The Taxi Driver's Advocate." Written by Lizzie Widicombe. The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017.

Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward; that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic

Theory of progress Political progress Progress Political theory

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

We have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

Barack Obama

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama

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Political progress

Speaker

Barack Obama

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Obama, Barack. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 2013, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

John Lewis

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Fate Political progress Progress Politics

Author

John Lewis

Medium

Tweet

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lewis, John [@repjohnlewis]. "We may not have chose the time, but the time has chosen us." Twitter, 11 July 2016, 4:21 p.m., twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/752505298326319104

We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Political progress

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Barbara Jordan

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Political progress American politics

Speaker

Barbara Jordan

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Jordan, Barbara. Statement at Debate on Articles of Impeachment. U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings. 25 July 1974, Washington, DC, USA.

Maybe you can't override prejudice overnight, but the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, ninety-odd years ago. I believe in gradualism. I also believe that ninety-odd years is pretty gradual.

Thurgood Marshall

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Civil rights Social progress Political progress Progress American politics

Speaker

Thurgood Marshall

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Marshall, Thurgood. "Fighting Back: 1957-1962." Eyes on the Prize, created by Henry Hampton, performances by Thurgood Marshall, season 1, episode 2, Blackside, 1987.

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times; we've had difficult times in the past; we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not the end of disorder. But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings who abide in our land.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Race relations Political progress

Speaker

Robert F. Kennedy

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy, Robert F. Remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 Apr. 1968, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...coax us, "Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you." For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now-and we're going to try our hands at it.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Political progress Progress

Speaker

Carol Milford Kennicott

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Main Street

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 16.