Social Change Quotes - Page 6

• 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. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Hero, Mean, Numbers

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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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• Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teamwork, Imagination, Community

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• I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Believe, Technology

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• Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

  Anne Scott

  People, Leader, Ordinary

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• If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

  Nick Hanauer

  Real, Care, Social

  Source: gawker.com

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• Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Change, Heart, Innovation

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• When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.

  Lily Yeh

  Family, Meaningful, Art

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• My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

  Aldous Huxley

  Government, Sides, Anarchist

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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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

  Order, Snakes, Literature

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan

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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

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

  Albert Bandura

  Mean, People, Psychology

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

  Ben Rattray

  Social

  "Q&A: Ben Rattray of Change.org". Interview with Dana Mattioli, www.wsj.com. August 21, 2007.

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• Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

  Jim Wallis

  Christian, Inspiration, Our World

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

  John W. Gardner

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

  Cesar Chavez

  Change, Ambition, Achievement

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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

  Heart, Spirit, Action

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

  Chris Hughes

  Skills, Trying, World

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• Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Meaningful, Buddhist, Mistake

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• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

  Camryn Manheim

  Views, Practice, People

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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. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Special, Fiction

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• There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

  Cornel West

  Organization, Differences, Fundamentals

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My generation was going to change the direction America took. I was completely convinced that we would have a very different kind of society as a result of the protests that I was part of, and I think that's partially true. We obviously never really got to what many of my generation believed was possible, but the amount of change I've seen in my lifetime, both social change and political change, is staggering. I think my generation can take a little bit of credit for that by just opening up the conversation.

  Susan Lyne

  Thinking, Political, Different

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• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Media, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• What would it mean to live
  in a city whose people were changing
  each other's despair into hope?--
  You yourself must change it.

  Adrienne Rich

  Hope, Mean, Cities

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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