The Future of American Progressivism Quotes

“Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.”
― Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform

“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is, however, is to betray it. To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that in which it shows what it might become. America - this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of the no into the yes - needs citizens who love it enough to reimagine and remake it.”
― Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform

“They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.

Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.”
― Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform