"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake"
- Wendell Phillips
About this Quote
This quote by Wendell Phillips talks to the idea of progress being a continuous journey. He is suggesting that progress is not a single occasion, however rather a series of actions that build on each other. He uses the metaphor of scaffolds and stakes to illustrate this idea, recommending that each action of progress is like a scaffold or stake that supports the next. This metaphor suggests that progress is a gradual process, with each action structure upon the last. It likewise recommends that progress is cumulative, with each action contributing to the total progress of the world. This quote is a reminder that development is a journey, which each action is very important in order to reach the ultimate objective.
This quote is written / told by Wendell Phillips between November 29, 1811 and February 2, 1884. He/she was a famous Activist from USA.
The author also have 32 other quotes.
"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"
"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"
