when you fight for progressive values you fight for every man, woman and child

[grasswire]

You don't fight for ideology.

You fight for families, for workers, for equal protection under the law, for every grandmother, baby, hungry child, exhausted worker, and for our endangered planet itself. You fight for the principle of one man-one vote, for accountability for war crimes, for protection from want, from persecution, from discrimination, from torture, from corruption in government.

Your cause is noble, and worthy. So you can stand tall, be bold -- even demanding. You can channel abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, who said:

"On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD."

Do not equivocate. Do not "compromise" in false bipartisanship. Do not retreat.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, absolutely!

Recommended.

Garrison had it completely right.

I love that quote. Thanks for reminding me of him, and it.

[grasswire]

2. Paul Wellstone: "Stand up! Keep fighting!"

No apology. No waffling. No sniveling.

Stand for progressive values. The Democratic Party can be re-made, renewed, revived if we are true to our heritage and our courageous path that brought voting rights, civil rights, labor rights, social security, and so much more.

Stand up! Keep fighting!

[young_at_heart]

3. If ever you feel like wavering, just picture Dick Cheney's 'smile'

That does it for me every time----or Smirk's heh, heh, heh.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Hear hear. Progressivism is too important to be left in the hands of politicians

who label themselves 'progressive'. If a progressive politician does not stand for progressive values, he is not a progressive politician.