Quotes about Progress

We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...

Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often if feels as though you were moving backwards, and you lose sight of your goal: but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.