Social Change Quotes

Women athletes have the ability to serve as role models for women and girls throughout the world. I am excited to attend the World Economic Forum to explore ways in which the global community can continue to support athletes? ability to help create positive social change. - Monica Seles

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. - Muhammad Yunus

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too. - Bayard Rustin

What's needed is a profound social change in this country to care for the rights of workers. Our society is profoundly unjust. - Raul Vera

We seem determined to outpace the Scandinavians and the Dutch for social change. - Stockwell Day

We prepared a list with the names of officers, civil servants and workers to be given pieces of land over there. As for the names who have a security indication against them, a social change will take place, and it will be done quietly and gradually. - Taha Yassin Ramadan

We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics. - Susan Douglas

We articulated what the center was (originally) going to be about. We saw it as a place where we could bring in speakers like Cornel West to bring new ideas and stir people up a little bit to create social change. - Larry Crowe

Two great issues of our time are addressed by Jim Wallis, and his thought-provoking answers make powerful reading for anyone interested in social change. Jim Wallis challenges us to create a society that both addresses injustice and stresses personal responsibility, and his call for a global covenant through which rich countries meet their obligations to the poor will have a resonance throughout the world. - Gordon Brown