Octavia Spencer Quotes

There is this constant effort to progress in America, to make things better for everyone.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

The march of progress must continue.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

I believe that, we're better when we're moving forward. We're stronger together, so that's what I'm going to be doing.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

Social evolution is demonstrated by movement towards unity, not separatism.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

Punishing achievement isn't gonna help anybody. Trying to equalize people by lowering the people at the top, that's not good. All that is is punitive. Why don't you find a way to elevate people at the bottom?

When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.