1,930 Quotes About Progress

Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me.

JUSTICE means Just US Trying Individually to Civilize Earth.

[W]e've learned how to send people into outer space and how to shrink a powerful computer into a device that fits into the palm of our hand, yet we haven't yet learned how to face our racial history or how to tell the truth about the devastation wrought by colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism. We've learned how to develop powerful surveillance systems and how to build missiles that can reach halfway around the globe. But what have we learned about the true meaning of justice?

The religion of the future is not going to be christianity, islam, judaism or any such traditional system, rather, the religion of the future is going to be social justice.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

The young immigrants in the garment factories, alight with a spirit of progress, impatient with the weight of tradition, hungry for improvement in a new land and a new century, organized themselves to demand a more fair and humane society.

Let's make justice a process, not an afterthought

Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

Unfortunately, as one of the human writers once said, there’s no progress without bloodshed. During my prison years and many battles afterwards, those words have constantly been recurring in my mind. I came to understand that the emperor character of that book spoke the unfortunate but apparent truth of this world.