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Change Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
- Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
- How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that…
- This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.†Most children do not learn what to…
- ...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.
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
- 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…
- The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and…
- All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world.…
- Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in…
- Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
- Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
- Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,…
- You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
- Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
More Change Quotes
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough