Quotes about Progress

The perfect righteousness that we pursue is unattainable in this life. But if we hunger and thirst for it and diligently pursue it, over time we will grow more and more into the person God wants us to be.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.