Quotes About Progress

Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another

And him. Eighteen seventy-four and whitefolks were still on the loose.

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.

Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. And unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. I prefer not to adjust to my environment. I refuse the prison of "I" and choose the open spaces of "we.

I don't foresee, or want, a color-blind, race-neutral environment. The nineteenth century was the time for that. It's too late, now. Our race-inflected culture not only exists, it thrives. The question is whether it thrives as a virus or a bountiful harvest of possibilities.

ebb and flow

Here is the secret to your life as a kingdom woman of excellence: a short memory coupled with a clear direction. If you are going to live in excellence, you have to forget yesterday. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, if it's yesterday, you need to let it go. When you carry yesterday further than you ought to, you ruin today. If you ruin today, then you spoil tomorrow.

Faith is never simply a feeling. Faith always involves movement. Get moving.

Are you progressing to be more and more like Jesus Christ? Are you investing in the moment rather than being bound by yesterday or worrying about tomorrow?

Sabemos que nos conecta con el lugar donde queremos ir; pero ¿qué pasa si yo cruzo el puente y tú decides quedarte donde estás? ¿Los dos le daríamos uso al puente? No. Un puente solo es útil si lo cruzas. Y un puente que no se usa es un puente inútil.

When you hang on to the weight of yesterday, it will hinder the progress to tomorrow.

The first step to overcoming the past is realizing that no matter what others do to you, if the Lord is with you, you can still get somewhere. So

This is why everyone must "work out" his or her own salvation (see Philippians 2:12).

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

These westbound pioneers slogged through the morass on foot, or in wagons drawn by mules and oxen. Impossible for them to conceive that their mud march would one day become sport for modern Americans

Silence over Europe's recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future.

Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.

What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable.

Our problem is to work out a social organization which shall be as efficient as possible without offending our notions of a satisfactory way of life." —JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

The social question is back on the agenda.

During the long century of constitutional liberalism, from Gladstone to LBJ, Western democracies were led by a distinctly superior class of statesmen.

Keynes himself had taken the view that capitalism would not survive if its workings were reduced to merely furnishing the wealthy with the means to get wealthier. It was

Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated the French Revolution, like the reformers and planners of the New Deal and postwar Europe, were distinctly younger than those who had gone before. Rather than resign themselves, young people are more likely to look at a problem and demand that it be solved.

Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men.