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• When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency – the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Long, Vision

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• Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Life, Money, Two

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• If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.

  Ronald Sydney Nyholm

  Country, Children, Teaching

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• 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.

  Robert Wright

  Anxiety, Addresses, Safe

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• The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

  Saul Alinsky

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

  Norm Coleman

  Change, Retirement, Ifs And

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• Design is a response to social change.

  George Nelson

  Design, Social, Response

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• For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earthquakes, Cities, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Wise, Art, Choices

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• Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized fashion is one of the most important intellectual developments of the late twentieth century." He correctly attributes the modern origins of this argument to F. A. Hayek, whose pioneering contributions to cognitive science, the study of cultural evolution, and the dynamics of social change put him in the forefront of the most creative scholars of the 20th century.

  Douglass North

  Fashion, Writing, Order

  "Orders of the Day" by Douglass North, reason.com. November 1999.

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• I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

  Pamela Yates

  Struggle, Cinema, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Ultimately the social change has to come from the people who make the movies, so the people who make the movies have to look at the landscape and say to themselves, "Well, you know, these things are changing, and I'm okay with their having changed, and I think it's okay to start reflecting those changes through the movies we make."

  Wesley Morris

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

  Lydia M. Child

  Reality, Wish, Important

  Letter to the Advocates of Woman's Suffrage, 1870.

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• If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

  Charles Krauthammer

  America, Way, Social

  "Obama's Ultimate Agenda". jewishworldreview.com. April 02, 2009.

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• Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

  John Goodman

  Children, Years, Reform

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• The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

  Roy Barnes

  School, Promotion, Social

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Real, Effort

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• Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

  Eve Ensler

  Moving, Issues, People

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• The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Hatred, Perception

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.

  Helen LaKelly Hunt

  Spiritual, Organization, Justice

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• There is no joy in possession without sharing.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Change, Caring, Joy

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• Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

  John Dewey

  Education, School, Order

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.408, SIU Press

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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 were.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Pregnancy, Egypt, Class

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• When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

  Fred Polak

  Culture, Development, Evolution

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• Everyone needs help from everyone.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Collaboration, Needs, Helping

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