Quotes About Progress

a new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The engine huffed and groaned and kept running. They had merely switched the fuel that moved the pistons. The

The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.

She threw him a bone about the movement: 'Lyndon Johnson's carrying on President Kennedy's civil rights bill. And if that good old boy is doing right, you know things is changing. Be a whole different thing when you come home, Elwood.

South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.

life is an argument with the world over time.

May the next traveler not tarry and keep moving up the line, all the way to liberty.

He'd broken through into a small corner of American success where his race did not curse him. Some might have lived in that space happily, rising alone. Lander wanted to make room for others. People were wonderful company sometimes.

Bitince yenisine ba?lars?n,' dedi. 'Ama bu daha bitmedi.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

The negro's story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.

In time the saplings and hedges on the perimeter would provide shade and character; now they spoke of fine intentions.

First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers

I'm all for your people. You might not think so, but I am. I'm all for colored progress, but gradual. You can't do everything overnight--that would be chaos.

it was time to get out of what Coach called small-stack mentality. I no longer had to play like I was trying to escape the space station before it self-destructed, as the chirpy computer voice counted down.

That was a temporary setback," Zippo said. "If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a 'setback.

By his sights, the real movie started after the first one ended, in the impossible return to things before

The future? The future was the clay in their hands.

Hard to believe that reconstruction had progressed so far that clock-watching had returned, the slacker's code, the concept of weekend.

How had he suffered the old arrangement for that long? Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don't.

Sometimes you've got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present.

He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

One corner to another. One more crack in the pavement. That's the way we all walk: the more we have to occupy our minds the better.

He could help put a man on the Moon, but he couldn't count the body bags. Send a satellite spinning, but he couldn't figure out how many crosses to go into the ground.