But he would be disappointed to know that in Mississippi and elsewhere some people are resorting to Jim Crow-era tactics to disenfranchise voters in a desperate attempt to reverse 50 years of hard earned political progress.
According to Seth Priebatsch, new employees at SCVNGR memorize a deck of 50 game dynamics like the progression dynamic, or earning points to make progress.
But difficulty is at its best when it's an intrinsic part of the design: players have to think about the game in another way – and earn their progress.
Perhaps it had something to do with the upheaval that turning back our hard-earned progress would cause.
The idea of putting the American people's hard-earned progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility, and it doesn't have to happen.
"The idea of putting the American people's hard-earned progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility and doesn't have to happen," he said.
But thanks to the sacrifices of those who have served, we have forged hard-earned progress, we are leaving Iraq to its people, and we have begun the work of ending this war.
In a strongly worded attack, Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, told the Guardian that Sturgeon's spending pledges were "the death sentence for all the hard-earned progress in repairing the public finances and securing this jobs-rich recovery.
Climate change, civil unrest and terrorism can rapidly undo hard-earned progress even as demands increase: people around the world rightly want more than access to basic services – they want an equal shot at opportunities to thrive, not merely to survive.
The Greek government will say that a vote for Syriza risks endangering all the hard-earned progress that has been made.
"Handing back control of our economy to either Labour or the Tories in government on their own in this election will put all this hard-earned progress at risk," he said.
