Quotes About Advancement

To be a proud and militant black after the sixties, you screamed black power in order to induce the application of white power. And you lived by an ethic that still sees full responsibility as oppression, if not racism, when applied to blacks. Still today, the best way to make a black leader mad is to say to him that black Americans are capable of being fully responsible for their own advancement.

It is also the formula that keeps black America underdeveloped even as we enjoy new freedom and a proliferation of opportunity. No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement.

it was slavish to think that black advancement was somehow dependent on the good offices of a white man without half the gravitas of black leaders like King or James Farmer or Malcolm X.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

We live in the least ugly time in history.

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.

Opportunity makes the man

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age.

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.

Most of the time, yesterday's level of increase will not be enough to secure tomorrow"s increase

If you do not move in synchronization with time, you will be left behind.