Quotes About Progress

Mamie now envisioned God's purpose for her life—and for her son's life: "I took the privacy of my own grief and turned it into a public issue, a political issue, one which set in motion the dynamic force that ultimately led to a generation of social and legal progress for this country.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend.

We already have the means to travel among the stars. But these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an Act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.

For its part, science is about being able to admit that you're wrong.

We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative[s]," wrote one Bostonian, "and waked up stark mad abolitionists."7

No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on. But

The past is the past, Vader said. The present and future are all that matter.

Not every change is a step forward.

No one is immune from failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that failure, but must learn from it and continue on.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented.

Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns.

History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance

If you accept the position of governor, part of your job is to make sure all your people have a decent shot at making something good out of their lives.

To live in a world fairly dripping with technology and yet have no concept of how or why any of it worked—it seemed incomprehensible.

A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns. Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.

As weaponry advances, the techniques used against obsolete ordnance may be neglected or lost.

Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." He raised a finger—

Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.

Where there's life, there's the hope of change.

Along this road, we won't stop moving forward Not even if we become separated from one another. For us, most of all, there was never a time, never a place where you could just stand still But even so, if there were times when we were afraid, when we'd look back on it all and wonder We'd just say that is was our destiny, wouldn't we? So we started off, all walking down the same road

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward…