Quotes About Action

Change won't come from the top, Change will come from mobilized grassroots.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime.

So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."b

You think you may not be ready, that you'll do it at a more convenient time. But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

And I say to you today that we need more folks in this country who are a good crazy….You can't tell what will happen when you get folks with some good crazy…going to the polls to vote!

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power. Issues

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

We are made for this moment, and we will seize it-so long as we seize it together.

Barack Obama

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Getting things done meant subjecting yourself to criticism, and the alternative—playing it safe, avoiding controversy, following the polls—was not only a recipe for mediocrity but a betrayal of the hopes of those citizens who'd put you in office.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Just talk. Yet what concerned me wasn't the damage loose talk caused efforts...,or the emotional pain it caused others. It was the distance between our talk and our action, the effect it was having on us as individuals and as a people.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Issues, action, power, self-interest. I liked these concepts. They bespoke a certain hardheadedness, a worldly lack of sentiment; politics, not religion.

The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.