Quotes About Change

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Forget the past.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference , Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Niente come tornare in un luogo rimasto immutato ci fa scoprire quanto siamo cambiati...