Quotes About Change

The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma.

When exactly was the 'again' in the president's slogan 'Make America great again'? Hint: It is the same 'again' that we find in 'Never again.

The nation faces forward. It is made and remade every day. If we believe that the nation resides in the orderly recitations of history given to us by our leaders, then our story is over

you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

Any election can be the last, or at least the last in the lifetime of the person casting the vote.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If

The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.

Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world. The

when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster." What we need, he thinks, are "riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.

Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest

Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.

It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.

Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed. In

The man who runs naked across a football field certainly disrupts, but he does not change the rules of the game. The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess. —

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. As

Stand out: someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.

Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world.

people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.

The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will

The world is now changing, reviving fears that were familiar in Hitler's time, and to which Hitler responded. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.

The ashes of Warsaw were still warm when the Cold War began.

Every Pennsylvania county that Obama won in 2012 but Trump won in 2016 was in opioid crisis.