Gandhi once said, 'Be the change you wish to see in the world'. A progressive is a person that accepts the inevitable stream of our changing social, political, and spiritual lives. A progressive is able to manifest and live that change in a concrete and deliberate way, inspiring the world around to expand its idea's about itself in order to create the great society we all invision and desire deep in our hearts. A true progessive strives to create a sustainable and just world where the fundamental belief is that we all one. 'What I do for you, I do for myself, for we are one and the same.'

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