If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.
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I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.
I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
People deserve to see progress.
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