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“Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

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Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.”

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Book:History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc

Source: History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc

“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.”

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.”

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Author:Leymah Gbowee

“The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.”

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Book:Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.”

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Book:Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.”

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Author:Subhas Chandra Bose

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.”

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Book:Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”