...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories.… — Alanis Obomsawin Copy Share Image
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If we took the passion and the conviction that the activist trans community has and we combined it with this over-the-top marketable… — Alaska Copy Share Image
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People's determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
“I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary art need not be overtly political in content; what is more important is that it demand a new means of perception… — Ann Daly Copy Share Image
“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
“[W]hether it is debates over men sharing housework and child-rearing, the ‘crisis’ of marriage and behind that the broader crisis of male-female… — Richard Dunphy Copy Share Image
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope? You yourself must change… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.” — Rivera Sun Copy Share Image
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Being new could affect your personality. Why don't you go back and stay the way they loved you before. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image