Social Change Quotes - Page 2

• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

  Cesar Chavez

  Social, Humiliate

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.266, Penguin

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• Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

  Manuel Castells

  Change, Corporations, Collaboration

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• The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

  Gloria Steinem

  Resistance, Firsts, Social

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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 it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

  Andre Gide

  Change, Being Yourself, Writing

  "Les Nourritures Terrestres". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

  Cesar Chavez

  Change, Strength, Being Strong

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

  George Gilder

  Entrepreneur, Economic, Social

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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  C. L. R. James

  Discovery, Social, Technological

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• Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.

  Darren Walker

  Thinking, Order, Leader

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

  Alice Walker

  Change, White, Collaboration

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I wanted to use sports for social change.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Use, Social

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• The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

  Penelope Lively

  Loss, Thinking, Lost Friendship

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Do your best with what you have where you are.

  Lucy Punch

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Ideas, Fruit

  "How Oprah’s Growing Healthier — And You Can Too" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2013.

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• The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Change, Political, Democracy

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• Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Change, Support, Community

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• As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

  James T. Walsh

  Change, Kings, Rights

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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 conscience.

  Walter Lippmann

  Change, Mean, Social

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Live like a mighty river.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Rivers, Collaboration

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• Revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Revolution, Action, Anarchism

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria

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