Quotes About Progress

Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

what a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.

Very few adults today realize that our society has been slave much longer than it has been free.

What You Can Do About Sundown Towns: The Three-Step Program in Action To help sundown towns transcend their pasts and end second-generation sundown town issues, I suggest a "Three-Step Program": •?Admit it: "We did this." •?Apologize: "It was wrong, and we apologize." •?Renounce: "And we don't do it anymore.

Since "healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes," they went on to "pledge to work toward the common good in building a community where people of all races and cultural backgrounds are welcome to live and prosper.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU

We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

Perhaps telling realistically what slavery was like for slaves is the easy part. After all, slavery as an institution is dead. We have progressed beyond it, so we can acknowledge its evils. Slavery's twin legacies to the present are the social and economic inferiority it conferred upon blacks and the cultural racism it instilled in whites. Both continue to haunt our society. Therefore, treating slavery's enduring legacy is necessarily controversial. Unlike slavery, racism is not over yet.

The authors make no connection between the failure of the United States to guarantee black civil rights in 1877 and the need for a civil rights movement a century later. Nothing ever causes anything. Things just happen.

If you want to go quickly-go alone, but if you want to go far-go together. ~ African Proverb

Human migration seems to follow a certain pattern, from eastern Africa into modern Israel then up through modern Turkey and into eastern Europe, where they worked their way west.

The shift from hunting-gathering to agriculture led to one very important development -- it laid the building blocks for civilization as we know it.

We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ..., Kleinrock ... said in an interview, We typed the L and we asked on the phone, Do you see the L? Yes, we see the L, came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, Do you see the O. Yes, we see the O. Then we typed the G, and the system crashed... Yet a revolution had begun…

In 2014, however, Chinese scientists were believed to have a 75% success rates cloning pigs. In the future, the procedure might be used to preserve endangered species or even revive extinct species. First experiments with DNA from a wild mountain goat, officially declared extinct in 1999, proved successful.

Nevertheless, economic historians agree that the first Industrial Revolution was the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals, plants, and fire.

Alas! Alas! why could not this simple life have continued? Why must the railroads, and the swarms of settlers have invaded that wonderful land, and robbed its lords of all that made life worth living? They knew not care, nor hunger, nor want of any kind. From my window here I hear the roar of the great city, and see the crowds hurrying by.

Every relationship reaches a stage where it reinvents itself or plays out.

Today was going to get a whole lot worse before it got better.

Children march in lockstep through grades with their age peers, regardless of their capabilities.

Her parents asked for special courses or distance-learning opportunities, but the school refused. It had never been done before, administrators said.

Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.

Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.

We all want to see Sunshine after Moonlight.

she realized this was the first positive goal she'd had since before Jeremy had died. A goal that meant expansion in her life, not forced contraction.