Best Social Change Words
224 Social Change quotes by 168 unique authors
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero.…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws…
— Bayard Rustin
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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.
— Saul Alinsky
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I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.
— Ben Rattray
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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
— Malcolm Fraser
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
— Emma Goldman
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As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change.…
— William Gibson
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say…
— Andre Gide
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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human…
— Emma Goldman
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a…
— Stockwell Day
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art…
— Ernst Fischer
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
— Keith Henson
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
— Billie Jean King
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
— Florence King
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The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we…
— Guy Laliberte
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in…
— Walter Lippmann
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and…
— Simon Mainwaring
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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…
— Simon Mainwaring
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have…
— John Major
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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
— John Boyd Orr
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind…
— Camille Paglia
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit…
— Camille Paglia
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