Social Change Quotes
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![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518558i/23924._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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![Karl Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865402i/7084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).”
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
― Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
![Paul Rogat Loeb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224300755i/64732.jpg)
“Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ”
― The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
― The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
![Muhammad Yunus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371189i/1254841._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Alvin Toffler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226226386i/3030._CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”
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![Michael G. Kramer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg)
“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976, the first boat carrying Vietnamese refugees arrived in Darwin. (Uc da Loi means Big Red Rat. The Vietnamese People named Australians as such because of the red kangaroo painted on the sides of Australian military vehicles. They did not know what a kangaroo was and so, they thought it was a rat. Hence the name of Uc da Loi.)
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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![Hakim Bey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1319096811i/110688.jpg)
“Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.”
― TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
― TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
![Muhammad Yunus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371189i/1254841._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
![Hank Green](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518200461i/7023543._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's important to remember that we all change each other's minds all the time. Any good story is a mind-altering substance.”
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518558i/23924._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to work to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
![Muhammad Yunus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371189i/1254841._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
![Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1437763144p2/7187023.jpg)
“Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.”
― WordSong Poets
― WordSong Poets
![Albert Bandura](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1493137671i/220746._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Social Learning Theory
― Social Learning Theory
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Jonathan Franzen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1563172476i/2578._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518558i/23924._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."
--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”
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--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”
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![David Graeber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1479657149i/29101._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin.”
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![Jess C. Scott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603737393i/2980674._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
― The Other Side of Life
― The Other Side of Life
![Muhammad Yunus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371189i/1254841._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
![Jacques Ellul](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1355445450i/59700._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.”
― Perspectives on Our Age
― Perspectives on Our Age
![Isaac Asimov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341965730i/16667._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?”
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![Leonard Bernstein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219712604i/41906._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.”
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![Charles Eisenstein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1348991091i/269650._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.”
― Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
― Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
![Muhammad Yunus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371189i/1254841._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
![Germany Kent](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587890777i/8557658._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:
1 Post content that add value
2 Spread positivity
3 Create steady stream of info
4 Make an impact
5 Be yourself”
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1 Post content that add value
2 Spread positivity
3 Create steady stream of info
4 Make an impact
5 Be yourself”
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![G.N. Chevalier](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1326862058i/5397725.jpg)
“I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.”
― Bonds of Earth
― Bonds of Earth
![Muhammad Yunus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215371189i/1254841._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Changes are products of intensive efforts.”
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
― Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
![Ernst Jünger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1222085840i/281443._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”
― Eumeswil
― Eumeswil
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