Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.
The world is like a ladder: some go up and some go down.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
Economic development has a reverse gear.