Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .
Interpretation
Human progress requires active effort and is not guaranteed.
This quote underscores the importance of conscious and deliberate action in achieving societal progress. It highlights that advancements in humanity do not happen on their own; rather, they result from the dedication, courage, and collective effort of individuals who strive for change and justice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for social change to emphasize the need for activism.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
People who understand everything get no stories.
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values β is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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