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"Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force."
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . ."
"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end."
"A man prepared has half fought the battle."
"North Korea continues to advance its nuclear technology and will soon reach weaponization. Regarding its intercontinental ballistic missiles, it is continuously making progress. So currently, it is urgent for us to freeze North Korea's program so they will stop additional provocations and stop advancement of its technologies. I believe during my upcoming summit meeting in the U.S. I will be able to discuss a two-phased approach to the North Korean nuclear issue - the first being a freeze and the second being complete dismantlement."
"Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race."
"But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress."
"Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress."
"Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress."
"There's no straight line to progress."
"For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress."
"Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."
"I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking."
"We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress."
"History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another."
"To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress."
"All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition."
"Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen."
"Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has."
"Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end."
