Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.

It is only the unthinking liberals in this world who see nothing but tragedy in the slowing up or temporary stopping of liberal progress.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow.