Racism Quote by David Grann

“Yet an ugliness often lurked beneath the reformist zeal of Progressivism. Many Progressives—who tended to be middle-class white Protestants—held deep prejudices against immigrants and…

— Anonymous

“Reagan Democrats increasingly extended their antipathy from nonwhites to government as a whole. “These white Democratic defectors express a profound distaste for blacks, a…

— Ian Haney López

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its…

— Rick Perlstein

“Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday’s…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations…

— Thomas Sowell

“Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage…

— Richard Hofstadter

Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed wealth to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive; two figures…

— G.K. Chesterton

“genuine individualism and constitutional republicanism, the latter two being obstacles to a centralized state in which it is claimed that governing authority exists at…

— Mark R. Levin

“It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the compulsory sterilisation…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“As award-winning British journalist Melanie Phillips writes, “The correspondences between Western progressives and Islamists are really quite remarkable. Both are attempting to create utopias…

— Mary Poplin

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

— Jane Smiley