Social change quotes

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◆ For my birthday I want world peace, to end hunger and pain, to end global warming, to end racism, for people not to judge others by the outside, for all ages, colors, races, and other differences to never matter, for everyone to have same opportunities for all,to live in a world where money has no value, where equality and understanding is an everyday experience. For my birthday I want the impossible.

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◆ When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

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◆ Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.

- Ericka Huggins99

◆ Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

- Bill Drayton99

◆ Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive...my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

- Jonathan Franzen99

◆ What good is science if not expand one's soul so that she behaves like an ocean that holds the trash. What good is intelligence if not enlarge one's personality so that he was increasingly able to understand other people?

- Emha Ainun Nadjib99

◆ 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.

- Albert Bandura99

◆ Those who make us believe that anythings possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but dont, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change.

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◆ I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

- Jon Stewart99

◆ First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

- Mahatma Ghandi99

◆ Declare World Party I !

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.

- Cesar Chavez99