Quotes About Progress

l'oppressione, l'orrore, i massacri erano terminati per sempre. Il mondo progredito non li avrebbe più tollerati.

L'idée de commencer l'avait toujours beaucoup plus séduit que celle de continuer.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

Our past was slavery. We cannot recur to it with any sense of complacency or composure. The history of it is a record of stripes, a revelation of agony. It is written in characters of blood. Its breath is a sigh, its voice a groan, and we turn from it with a shudder. The duty of to-day is to meet the questions that confront us with intelligence and courage. —Frederick Douglass, "The Nation's Problem

Men talk much of a new birth. The fact is fundamental. But the mistake is in treating it as an incident which can only happen to a man once in a lifetime: whereas the whole journey of life is a succession of them. A new life springs up in the soul with the discovery of every new agency by which the soul is raised to a higher level of wisdom: goodness and joy.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

In what new skin will the old snake come forth?

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.

The only thing that went wrong was the human race itself.

Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

Wo aber die Gefahr ist, wächst, Das Rettende auch. But where danger is, salvation also blooms.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.