Blanche DuBois on human progress

“Maybe we are a long way from being made in God’s image.
In some kinds of people, some tenderer feelings have had some little beginnings that we’ve got to make grow and cling to and hold....
...as our flag in the dark march to whatever it is we’re approaching.
Don’t hang back with the brutes!”

– Blanche DuBois in A streetcar named desire (Play by Tennessee Williams, film directed by Elia Kazan in 1951)