* You really can change the world if you care enough. -- Marian Wright Edelman

* Change happens at the level of the individual -- Scilla Elworthy * Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future. -- Scilla Elworthy

When faced with world problems – like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade – you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of “Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?” Take heart. That’s a sane response. It’s the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.
-- Scilla Elworthy

* “News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising...” -- Ralph Fiennes

“News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.”
-- Ralph Fiennes

* All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. -- Benjamin Franklin

"We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all."
-- John Hope Franklin

* "You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

* "Be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mohandas Gandhi

* "I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done." -- Woody Guthrie

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale

* It is people's hearts that move the age. -- Herbie Hancock

 

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.
-- Robert M. Hensel

* "We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us." ~ Angelina Jolie

* "Imagine what millions of us can accomplish... we will make our dream of a better world a reality.." -- Ellis Jones

* "What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." -- Barbara Jordan

* I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. -- Helen Keller

* "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." -- Robert F. Kennedy * There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert F. Kennedy (paraphrase of quote by George Bernard Shaw)

* I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world. -- Nicole Kidman

* "You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives." -- John Legend

* There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen. -- Annie Lennox

We Can Create a Better World

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