Quotes About Change

L'éducation est l'arme la plus puissante que vous pouvez utiliser pour changer le monde. »

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.

Il nostro giocare in piccolo non serve al mondo.

No era la falta de oportunidades lo que limitaba a mi pueblo, sino la falta de oportunidades.

I was visited by my mother in spring 1968. I had not seen her since the end of the Rivonia Trial. Change is gradual and incremental, and when one lives in the midst of one's family, one rarely notices differences in them. But when one doesn't see one's family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. My mother suddenly seemed very old.

Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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What struck me so forcefully was how small the planet had become during my decades in prison;

lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.

Recordé a todos, una y otra vez, que la lucha por la liberación no había sido una batalla contra otros grupos u otros colores de piel, sino contra un sistema represivo.

Here I experienced a rather strange sensation. As I was boarding the plane I saw that the pilot was black. I had never seen a black pilot before, and the instant I did I had to quell my panic. How could a black man fly a plane? But a moment later I caught myself: I had fallen into the apartheid mind-set, thinking Africans were inferior and that flying was a white man's job. I sat back in my seat, and chided myself for such thoughts.

Ironically, it was the regent himself who was indirectly to blame for this, for it was the education he had afforded me that had caused me to reject such traditional customs

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

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

When describing why the African National Congress took the fateful decision to give up on nonviolence and take up arms, Mandela writes that they had no choice, that "the oppressor defines the nature of the struggle.

Dir-se-ia que a avidez súbita, a ideia fixa do dinheiro o transformava, inclusive fisicamente.

And nothing would ever happen if we always stayed the same ["The Sweetness"].

Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow.

When Salt People show up, the 'flavor' of the situation improves

what we have done is unacceptable.

don't want to come back as a seasonal interpreter," Anna said finally. Jenny looked crestfallen. "I don't blame you for that," Steve said. "Let me know when you'd like your last day to be and I'll get to work on the paperwork." "No, I'm staying," Anna said. "I want to come back in law enforcement.

Anna'd been born female, she'd grown into a small woman and, in the past ten years, had slid into middle age. If ever there was a cloak of invisibility, time and circumstances were trying to weave her one.