Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Finds progress man's distinctive mark alone Not God's and not the beast's God is they are Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

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.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.