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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

—Margaret Mead
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.

—Barack Obama
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

—Maya Angelou
The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

—Laurence Overmire
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

—Thomas Sowell (1993)
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

—Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.

—Rupert Murdoch
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.

—Aung San Suu Kyi (07/1991)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

—Abraham Lincoln
I do no not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I do know how the Fourth will: with sticks and stones.

—Albert Einstein
There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

—Francois Fenelon
Music can change the world because it can change people.

—Bono
Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand -- it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

—Oveta Culp Hobby
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

—Anthony Robbins
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

—George Linnaeus Banks
We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

—Cesar Chavez

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