Quotes About Progress

Each citizen of India is a nation builder.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there's 120 and they've been inspired by the American exceptionalism.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.