Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Social Change Quotes
ActivismHistoryMusicResponsibilitySocial Change I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.
EducationGovernanceInstabilityPower DynamicsSocial Change It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Gender EqualityHistorical PerspectivesReligion and SocietySocial ChangeWomen S Rights The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
BehaviorEthicsProgressSocial ChangeTransformation The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
FeminismGender EqualityHistoryProgressSocial Change Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
CitizenshipEqualityFeminismProgressSocial Change I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
Public UnderstandingSocial ChangeSocietal Attitudes If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
ActivismAdmirationCourageSocial Change I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
Authority DefianceGlobal PhenomenonHistorical ImpactPolitical MovementsSocial Change The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Legal HistoryLegislative ProcessesSocial ChangeWomen S Rights Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.
Conflict And ObstaclesProgressSocial ChangeUtopia It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
ChallengesEqualityHopeProgressSocial Change We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Economic DevelopmentExperimentInnovationPurposeSocial Change America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Economic GrowthSocial ChangeTax SystemsWealth Disparity There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
CausalityHistorySocial ChangeSociology As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Economic TheoryPolitical IdeologySocial Change The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.