Social Change Quotes
Social Change Quote of the day
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.
I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.
...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out
All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.
When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
Changes are products of intensive efforts.
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.
The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.
Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.