Quotes About Change

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Ploaia este cuvântul de recunoaÈ™tere printre cei ispitiÈ›i de o oarecare suspendare a lumii. S? spui c? îÈ›i place ploaia înseamn? s? te recunoÈ™ti diferit.

De ce nu mai ai prieteni? - Au muceg?it. Nu remarcasem c? au o dat? de expirare. Trebuie s? fii atent la asta. Prietenii mei au început s? aib? urme de putregai, pete verzi destul de scîrboase. Ceea ce spuneau începea cu-adev?rat s? miroas? r?u...

Pourquoi n'as-tu plus d'amis ? - Ils ont moisi. Je n'avais pas remarqué qu'ils avaient une date de péremption. Il faut faire attention à ça. Mes amis ont commencé à avoir des traces de pourriture, des taches vertes assez dégoûtantes. Ce qu'ils disaient commençait vraiment à sentir mauvais... ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p210)

Just as you are now, so have I been; Just as I am now, so shall you be.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

As you grow older, you change.

Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. … And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

A paradigm shift can be a sign of progress and evolution, a testament to our capacity for innovation and adaptation.

As you are thinking about the past, the past you are thinking about the future.

Everything that exists perishes, everything that has been created by those who perish will be destroyed. One inevitably leads to the other, one can never return to the primordial.

Neolithicization is the evolutionary cessation from a physiological perspective.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.