Top 22 Social Progress Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Social Progress Quotes from famous people such as Wynton Marsalis, Charles Fourier, Robert Kennedy, Joseph McCabe, Ro Khanna, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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My daddy thought – no, he expected – that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
Wynton Marsalis
The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Charles Fourier
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
Robert Kennedy
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that’s empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It’s up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.
Ro Khanna
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Oscar Niemeyer
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida
Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
Wynton Marsalis
Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.
Melanne Verveer
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
Robert Kennedy
I am confident that our experience, our scale, our intimate knowledge of the needs of our customers put us on the front line of economic and social progress.
Ana Patricia Botin
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson
Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.
Robert J. Sawyer
Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem… ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.
Daniel Starch
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
Helene Deutsch
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
George Henry Lewes
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society’s privileged classes choose to give up their status.
Tammy Bruce