“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.” – Wael Ghonim
“A movement that forgets about people is no longer a movement, it’s just an empty, hollow, power-seeking opportunity.” – Malala Yousafzai
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.” – Alice Walker
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.” – Dolores Huerta
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train.” – Howard Zinn
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Theodore Parker (popularized by Martin Luther King Jr.)
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.” – Dalai Lama
“Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.” – John Stott
“If not us, who? If not now, when?” – John F. Kennedy
“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” – Ginetta Sagan
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel
“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” – Assata Shakur
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Compilation of quotes about Change
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Change is the only constant in life.” – Heraclitus
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” – Woodrow Wilson
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.” – Lao Tzu
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” – Peter Senge
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” – Max DePree
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” – Bill Clinton
“Nothing is permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
“Don’t fear change. Embrace it.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow