Social Change Quotes

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." "Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do." "Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change." "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore" "I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you look at the life they're living, it's feminism in action" "The future is female" "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." "Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex." "Democracy is the road to socialism." "Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create" "Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter" "He who opens a school door, closes a prison" "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement" "Sometimes history needs a push" "It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it" "The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man" "Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry" "I live in a crazy time."