I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Source: In African American Wisdom.
-- Kelly Miller, ( 1863-1939), US educator, university dean; He was professor and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Howard University; wrote Race Adjustment, 1909 and numerous articles on education.