Quotes About Progress

But periodically I do explode. Now the good thing about this is that over time, the explosions have gotten smaller and the recovery time is faster, but what is guaranteed is that I will explode.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

I am not a good fighter," I try to explain again, fingering the edge of my shirt. "I mean, I am really bad at fighting, not as bad as my friend Issie, who is possibly the least fightery person in the world. I mean, I'm getting better, but still... I mean-- oh I'm sorry. I'm babbling.

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

When it came to choosing between education and religion, Albert said, he'd choose education every time. The school represented young people and the future - and the church didn't. If the school in Vestergade was bigger than the church, so much the better. Any town that believed in the future should take note.

Never send a human to do a computers job

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better,

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.

No people can go forward when the majority of those who should know better have chosen to go backward, but this is exactly what most of our misleaders do.

HISTORY shows, then, that as a result of these unusual forces in the education of the Negro he easily learns to follow the line of least resistance rather than battle against odds for what real history has shown to be the right course.

Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro, and in most of the Negro colleges and universities where the Negro is thought of, the race is studied only as a problem or dismissed as of little consequence.

Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.

Furthermore, if, after three generations the Negro colleges have not produced men qualified to administer their affairs, such an admission is an eloquent argument that they have failed ingloriously and should be immediately closed.

Highly educated" Negroes denounce persons who advocate for the Negro a sort of education different in some respects from that now given the white man.

The Negro church, however, although not a shadow of what it ought to be, is the great asset of the race.

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).