1,930 Quotes About Progress

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...

Fear is the number one enemy to any progress.

Tradition, to me, is a poison. And when you start to destroy it, those with that poison in their veins react with hostility. They think their culture has given them something, and are blind to what it has taken away.

You must work to distribute the fundamental resources of life equally, while working on the foundation of a society that doesn't allow disparities in distribution of resources in the first place.

Someone has to stand up to lift the world up.

Worshipping images is the religion of the stone-age, helping people is the religion of a civilized society.

Progress requires sacrifice of security.

Evolution is what’s left when all other options have been exhausted. Yes, it’s you.

Being modern is not a question of sacrificing the past in favour of the new, but of maintaining, comparing and remembering values we have created, making them modern, so as to not loose the value of the modern.