If "Good Enough for A Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, for FDR and JFK, It Should Be Good Enough for Today's Democratic Party"

"A Democratic party that adopts these principles has a real shot at political domination given Republicans' serious problems and weaknesses. Conversely, a Democratic party that continues on its present course dooms American politics to continued stalemate and polarization. Like the prospect of an imminent hanging, that should concentrate the mind."

Ruy Teixeira at The Liberal Patriot writes that it is "time for Democrats to try something that really could unite the country: liberal nationalism."

"Equal Rights and Jobs NOW"

"The UAW leader and his fellow unionists also knew the civil-rights movement’s most eloquent leader was on their side. Martin Luther King Jr. frequently spoke to labor audiences and consistently advocated their demands, while pressuring them to make equal opportunity a reality inside as well as outside their ranks. He wanted the U.S. to emulate havens of social democracy like Sweden, whose powerful workers’ movement had helped secure health care for all and an 'equitable division of wealth.'"

Michael Kazin in The New Republic discusses the role of unions in the 1963 March on Washington.

And Harold Meyerson in The American Prospect tells the "story of the radicals behind—and in front of—the demonstration that changed America."

"The Radical Ideas of One Generation Are Often the Common Sense of the Next"

"Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks or even on the History Channel. Indeed, our history is under siege."

Peter Dreier in The Nation presents a list of "The Fifty Most Influential [Activist] Progressives of the Twentieth Century."