Quotes About Progress

Since Rockefeller believed in meritocracy, not aristocracy, he favored educational opportunities for minorities.

Rockefeller reiterated his faith that cooperation, not competition, advanced the general welfare.

The colored race is not ready it seems to me for high culture.

Still, Tidewater pushed relentlessly ahead.

he is coming into the office to see if he is fit to go into the firm later on, which I hope and trust he will be.

It is interesting to note in this context that Standard Oil of Ohio did not hire its first permanent black employee until 1906.

Driven by such changes in the economy

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.

Junior was making progress after his breakdown but was still weak;

It seems to me that as the cities grow larger the country in general becomes weaker.

To mark their new financial status

He had to bide his time, though, because he first had to dispose of two legal challenges that dogged his footsteps throughout 1879.

Rebates had inevitably accompanied railroad expansion.

While the GEB achieved remarkable things in upgrading southern education, it failed to deliver major results where it had originally wanted them most: in black education.

A parte habitada da cidade estendia-se da Battery até o Common.

There is no limit to the development of medical work.

Para atender à insistência do rapaz quanto a um progresso rápido, Cooper concedeu-lhe

Baptism fostered a rational outlook that was well suited to advancement in capitalist society.

Hamilton logo se mostrou um aluno de energia incomparável, avançando nos estudos com sua característica rapidez.

To watch the progress of such endeavours is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power. This then is a right of the utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

As the years went by

Lincoln's political grammar always gravitated to the future tense.

Charles Dickens, visiting the United States five years earlier, had described Washington as "the City of Magnificent Intentions,"12 with "spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete.

If we do not birth and die ritually, we will do so technologically, inscribing technocratic values in our very bones. It matters greatly not only that we birth and die, but HOW we birth and die.