Nobel Prize Winner, Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago WROTE OUR PROGRESSIVE POPULIST REFORM MANIFESTO:
"To the people of the United States..., who through repeated betrayals, realize that today the power of the crooked political bosses and the privileged classes behind them is so strong in the two old party organizations that no helpful movements in the real interests of our country can come out of either; Read the Rest of Our Manifesto Used By
"Who believe that the time has come for a national progressive movement--a nationwide movement--on non-sectional lines, so that the people may be served in sincerity and truth by an organization unfettered by obligation to conflicting interests.
"TO All IN ACCORD WITH THESE VIEWS, A CALL IS HEREBY ISSUED."
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Teddy Roosevelt's National Progressive (BULL MOOSE) Party (1912)
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WE SAY: The two old parties are still Dead Meat IN NEED OF RESURRECTION OR ERADICATION.
PROGRESSIVE POPULIST REFORM ROOTS AROSE FROM EARLY REVOLUTIONARIES SUCH AS: WASHINGTON "...unless Congress have powers competent to all general purposes, ...the distresses we have encountered, the expense we have incurred, and the blood we have spilt, will avail us nothing." 1779
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JEFFERSON
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1776) said that to secure the self-evident, innate, and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, people create governments "...that derive their just powers from the people [not by divine right], laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them [the people] shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate. We...do, In the Name, and by Authority of the good People...publish and declare, That, these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States..."
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AND ADAMS
"It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [the formation of the American constitutions and governments] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise, or agriculture;...2 It will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses, as...Boylston practiced inoculation, and Franklin electricity....Neither the people, nor their conventions, committees, or sub-committees, considered legislation in any other light than as ordinary arts and sciences, only more important..... They determined to consult all other writers of reputation in the art, to compare...the principles of writers, and to consider how far both the principles and models were founded on nature,... Unembarrassed, ...even the pious mystery of holy oil had no more influence than that... of holy water. ....Thirteen governments were thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without pretence of miracle or mystery.... The experiment is made, and it has completely succeeded. It can no longer be called in question whether authority...can be grounded on reason [and] morality...without the monkery of priests....
Read Article 11 of the Treaty of Algiers which Adams signed as President EARLY FEDERALISTS SUCH AS: MADISON HAMILTON A GREAT JURIST:
MARSHALL
We do not therefore think ourselves justified in adopting it.
CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
AND LUCRETIA MOTT
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature...entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. Read the rest of the Declaration
THE CHAMPION OF THE UNION, LINCOLN
"I see in the...future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."--Abe Lincoln's timely prophecy, Nov, 12, 1864. Sent on Nov. 21, 1864 in a letter to Col. William F. Elkins (Ref: "The Lincoln Encyclopedia", Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY) CONSEQUENTLY: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROGRESSIVES SUCH AS TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND EMMA GOLDMAN AND FDR "[FDR] was not an intellectual...in the sense that the hero of his young years, Theodore Roosevelt, had been an intellectual. Yet all that he did--all that made him one of the great Presidents--could never have been done by...any of the other intellectuals who spoke patyronizingly of him."--Joseph Alsop, p.112 of FDR RECENT POLITICAL PROGENY INFLUENCED BY PROGRESSIVES IKE JFK
"Statement On The Steel Crisis President John F. Kennedy News conference, April 11, 1962 Simultaneous and identical actions of United States Steel and other leading steel corporations increasing steel prices by some $6 a ton
constitute a wholly unjustifiable and irresponsible defiance of the public interest. In this serious hour in our Nation's history, when we
are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability,
when we are asking reservists to leave their homes and families for months on end and servicemen to risk their lives-and four were
killed in the last 2 days in Viet-Nam-and asking union members to hold down their wage requests at a time when restraint and sacrifice
are being asked of every citizen, the American people will find it hard, as I do, to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of steel
executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the
interests of 185 million Americans. MLK Now read the rest of the story RFK NADER GORE CONTEMPORARY PROGRESSIVES: PALAST
EDROMAR The Best Idea of the Millenium
WE HAVE A DREAM Great Americans had great dreams
As a preamble to our dreams, listen to the words of great Americans that constitute the basis, the heart, the soul, and the consequences of our renewed PROGRESSIVE MANIFESTO.
Guess the authors of our dreams!
"Great Americans have great dreams: EXAMPLE OF THE GAME This is essentially a Peoples'....struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men--to lift artificial weights from all shoulders--to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all--to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. [T]his is the leading object of the government for whose existence we now contend. Guess the Author of this statement on AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:
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"The [Constitution] contains an enumeration of powers expressly granted by the people to their [federal] government. It has been said [by Jefferson and others, now for centuries] that these powers ought to be construed strictly; but why ought they to be so construed? Is there one sentence in the Constitution which gives countenance to this rule? ...nor is there one sentence in the Constitution ... that prescribes this rule.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed...with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw out such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.
"...the real issue...that will continue....the eternal struggle between these two principles--right and wrong--throughout the world[,]...two principles that have stood face to face since the beginning of time: and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other is the...right of [parasites]. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself...that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruits of their labor,or for one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle."
"This is essentially a Peoples'....struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men--to lift artificial weights from all shoulders--to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all--to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. [T]his is the leading object of the government for whose existence we now contend."
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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism -- ownership of
government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling power.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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