Social progress is not automatic but requires sustained effo... - Gunnar Myrdal

"Social progress is not automatic but requires sustained effort and moral conviction."

Gunnar Myrdal Perseverance

Economist Sociologist Swedish 1898–1987

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"The basis of all human cooperation is the willingness to see the other person as fundamentally like oneself."

"An inequality of capacities does not justify an inequality of freedom."

"Social problems are moral problems."

"The American Dilemma is the ever-raging conflict between the American ideals and American practices."

"Perseverance is the key to success."

"Don't give up on what you believe in."

"I've been through worse."

"You learn to live with the pain."