Quotes About Progress

There is no question that the Green Party has work to do in addressing racism, anti-Semitism, systemic discrimination in all its forms.

Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo - outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

meliorism"—the conviction that, through the small, beneficent actions and intentions of individuals, the world might gradually grow to be a better place.

A full stomach can't run. At

Sometimes you have to destroy the past so that you'll learn how to live in the new world.

It's just hard that moving on sometimes means leaving people behind.

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

How did you get to be ten years old?" "One day at a time.

When you were small, you would swing yourself up legs-first, but now you have to stick your head through the opening in the floor and then hoist the rest. You certainly have grown, you tell yourself.

We are living through the invention of independent female adulthood....After a long history during which living solo would get you labeled a pathetic spinster or, if you were lucky, a sexual iconoclast, being recognized as an independent person rather than as someone's daughter, wife, or mother is a new, shiny kind of liberty for women, one that has unlocked all sorts of doors.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul —Mark Twain

All records are made to be broken.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Closure is overrated. Closure doesn't exist.

and moved on, working with the selectmen or mayors because it was better for

Snowmen tipsy from thaw and refreezing marked my progress as I rolled slowly down Hanover Street.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.