#progress

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#blood #body #cause #dared #her

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#any #belong #black #dyed #freedom

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#become #both #economy #going #keep

I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#because #between #career #done #florida

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#day #deeply #ever #every #every day

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#change #every #habit #machine #produces

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#any #clear #did #electoral #ever

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#important #mind #more #progress #than

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

#been #civilization #cookery #progress

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#german #german people #growth #hard #hard work