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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. — Margaret Mead

People create social conditions and people can change them. — Osonye Tess Onwueme

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated. — Harold Holzer

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing. — Aaron Koblin

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter. — Anita Nair

Social and political change is an effect - it comes only after we change ourselves. — Jeffrey Tucker

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change. — Beth Simone Noveck

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new. — Terry Tempest Williams

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! — Bill Drayton

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change. — Simon Mainwaring

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. — Andrew Vachss

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford

Economic change is always accompanied by social change. No one can stop that. — Lisa Kleypas

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits. — Narendra Modi

If people can be convinced to pick up dog sh*t, who knows what social change is possible? — Franke James

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development. — Robert Zoellick

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. — Malcolm Fraser

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. — John Cage

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. — Bell Hooks

I wanted to use sports for social change. — Billie Jean King

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. — David Bornstein

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social. — Malcolm Gladwell

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up. — Hal Sparks

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation. — Kenna

Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes — Kjiva

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — Terry Tempest Williams

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense. — Rivera Sun

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it. — Ben Rattray

Apathy is not compatible with love — Simon Tam

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world. — Bill Drayton

Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human. — Abhijit Naskar

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. — C.L.R. James

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up. — Vandana Shiva

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We even know that larger social networks change our brains for the better as they require us to communicate with more and different others. — Meg Jay

An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself. — Jill Telford

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. — Robert Kennedy

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat. — Steve Winwood

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention. — Jaggi Vasudev

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. — Harriet Lerner

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. — Charles Eisenstein

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

Only the lonely, who can teach us, to not ambiguous. — Emha Ainun Nadjib

Rather, they changed because they were embedded in social groups that made change easier. — Charles Duhigg

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. — Saul Alinsky

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change. — Pedro Reyes

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

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus

If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare. — Donald Trump

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation. — Shereen El Feki

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

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now. — Mos Def

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them — Bruno Latour

I used to see dolphins as cute,
Smart and funny sea animals.
I know now that they're astute,
Divine beings, clever mammals. — Ana Claudia Antunes

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

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ... — Elizabeth Janeway

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism. — Gary L. Francione

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams

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

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for ... everything. Total change. — Yuri Milner

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.
From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris — Martin Luther King Jr.

TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change. — Jie Yang

To stop a habit or a vice seeks freedom in yourself — Miguel El Portugues

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. — Liam Neeson

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people — Cesar Hidalgo

Create the change you seek in the world.
Be an ecopreneur.
Launch your dream green business. — John D. Ivanko

Social Media begins with a story - your story. — Germany Kent

Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world. — Anwar Fazal

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change. — Leila Janah

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

If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves — Adam Kahane

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change. — David Jaber

You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change. — Ashton Applewhite

Social change comes through people. — Paul Watson

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. — Bell Hooks

Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new. — Abhijit Naskar

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. — David Byrne

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. — Marshall McLuhan

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Revolutions are infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it. — Anthony Giddens

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. — Cameron Sinclair

Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!) — Santosh Avvannavar

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. — Frances Power Cobbe

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton

I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up. — Abhijit Naskar

Another day.
How long are you gonna scroll down?
Semicolon
Smile — Sanhita Baruah

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities. — Arianna Huffington

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. — Gloria Steinem

In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion. — Jean Kilbourne