Quotes About Progress

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When women could vote, suddenly their lives became more important, and enfranchising women ended up providing a huge and unanticipated boost to women's health.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.

Even in the United States, after all, what brought equal rights to blacks wasn't the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments passed after the Civil War, but rather the grassroots civil rights movement nearly one hundred years later. Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

What we saw was a tragedy not just for one family, for the country cannot achieve its potential when so many citizens are not reaching theirs.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937

the fracturing of our society is grounded not in the weaknesses of a particular leader but in the inability of our institutions to deliver meaningful social progress for the average citizen.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Co-creation suggests the interaction of individuals within a framework to evolve, re-define or invent something that is new.

What the mechanical cotton picker did was make obsolete the sharecropper system, which arose in the years after the Civil War as the means by which cotton planters' need for a great deal of cheap labor was satisfied.

Almost everything is tuned to keeping the status quo shuffling along. When your life really takes off, some of your friends are very likely to perceive this as a threat because you, not they, are stepping out into a new future. They will cajole you to keep within conventional bounds, to be reasonable, to do the "right" thing.

wages and rewards of going with the flow of your programming. The willingness to feel fear and keep going forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

we have been content to drivel along with our current educational systems, most of which neglect all the essential things and leave their victims for all intents and purposes quite untrained. - Aldous Huxley, 1934

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Adam Ferguson], 'Of the Principle of

Failure to improve is rarely a physical failure; it's almost always an entirely mental shortcoming.

Why postpone a necessary element of running with a deviation like heel striking when we can land directly into our next point of action without delay?

In order for you to improve as a runner, a truce must be declared. In order for a truce to be declared, the conscious mind must comprehend what's going on in the subconscious mind.