Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that "character is destiny." It is character and personality that are the catalysts of the steady sense of commitment, that enable growth and development of civic skills, perspectives and frames of reference, that provide the necessary reevaluations for new iterations and strategies and modes of self-renewal, for keeping alert and alive the public's imagination of life's truly Progressive possibilities for human beings everywhere.
Our new true progressives must immediately carry forward the progressive promise of fairness for all, of fighting for economic justice and security in the U.S. and global economies, of protecting and preserving civil rights and civil liberties, of promoting global peace and security, and of advancing environmental protection and energy independence.
"The penalty good men pay for not being active in politics, is to be governed by men worse than themselves." Plato
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