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“Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.”

World Should Two Real Social Tools Real World Desirable Testing Social Change Linguistics Conjunctions

Author:Suzette Haden Elgin

“All social change comes from the passion of individuals.”

Passion Individual Social Serious Social Change

Author:Margaret Mead

“In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.”

Social Economic Entrepreneur Stability Social Change Embrace Change Economic Stability

Author:George Gilder

“In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.”

Earth Social Change Terrible Europe Various Fixed Social Change Earthquakes Upheaval Great Change

Author:Josiah Strong

“Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.”

Force Social Change Democracy Journalism Progressive Social Change

Author:Andrew Vachss

“As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.”

Social Change Leader Vision Rights Movement Kings Civil Rights Social Change Civil Rights Movement Advancing Staples Civil Rights Leaders

Author:James T. Walsh

“I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.”

Thinking World Wanted Together Social Animal Social Change

Author:Marla Maples

“This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.”

Should Social Class Progress Instruments Trade Liberation Working Class Social Change Unionism

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.”

Self Political Social Community Movement Sufficient Social Change Social Movements Self Reliant Political Change

Author:Jerry Brown

“I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.”

Knows Way Today Social Change Security Serious Senior Social Security Social Change Proposal

Author:Mac Thornberry

“Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.”

World Political Social Powerful Republic Social Change Very Powerful Czech Political Change Czech Republic Amadeus

Author:Jeffrey Jones

“Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.”

Mean Values Culture Belief Social Simple Study Issues Economic Lifestyle Range Agendas Broads Social Change Institute Economic Change

Author:Peter L. Berger

“Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.”

Social President Plans Security Needed Citizens Accounts Currents Drawing Reform Contribution Social Security Social Change President Bush Transfers Alterations Necessary Change

Author:Jim Leach

“If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.”

Ifs Way America Social Fairs Democratic Social Change Warranty

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.”

Years Children Social Security Cost Our Children Add Reform Pushing Delay Social Security Social Change Reformation

Author:John Goodman

“The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.”

Ends School Social Social Change Promotion

Author:Roy Barnes

“Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.”

Wells Social Known Competition Manners Well Known Social Change Persian

Author:Moshe Katsav

“When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.”

Social Religious Leader Involved Election Agendas Social Change Get Involved Reactionaries Religious Leaders

Author:Elizabeth Joan Smith

“The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.”

Ifs Humans Mean Values Social Animal Accepting Rights Theory Welfare Dramatic Consistent Animal Rights Social Change Bourgeois Animal Welfare

Author:Gary L. Francione

“...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out”

May Social Animal Movement Revolution Thinker Animal Rights Social Change Components Militarism Bandits

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.”

Done School Political Social Economic Revolution Social Change Present Time Political Revolution

Author:Hu Shih

“All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.”

Mind Long Hard Social Term Effort Leader Struggle Successful Organization Core Long Term Capture Social Change Future Leaders Hard Core

Author:Gary North

“When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.”

Way Matter Mother Values Social Supporter Social Change Giver

Author:Ina May Gaskin

“Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.”

People Needs Hard Problem Young Speak Language Social Hurt Failing Youth Demand Adults Concern Appreciate Impact Structure Response Organized Usual Ministry Social Change

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“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.”

People Way Social Taken Heard Social Change Changes In History

Book:Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

“When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.”

Ifs World Want Ideas Turns Social Focus Share Succeed Innovation Impact Rounds Financial Come Up Changing The World Social Change Pioneers

Author:Cameron Sinclair

“So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.”

Ifs Way Stories Fighting Lost Social My Way Social Change

Author:Alanis Obomsawin

“Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.”

“Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.”

Ideas Dream Projects Labor Plant Fruit Seeds Nurture Our Dreams Social Change Reap Women Leadership

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.”

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“All social change begins with a conversation.”

Social Conversation Social Change

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”

Ifs World Way Action Peace Change Inspiring Responsibility Steps Obligation Social Change Just Do It Moral Obligation One Step At A Time Women Leadership

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.”

“Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change.”

“I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.”

Has Beens Young Guy Social President White Picks Social Change White Guys

Author:D. L. Hughley

“...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.”

Wells Moving Political Individual Social Issues Creating Models Lifestyle Radical Life Changing Collectives Personal Life Emphasis Social Change Paradigm

Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.”

People Long Artist Social Cases Economic Picks Profound Statistics Great Art Social Change Great Artist Statistician Springsteen

Author:Wayne Swan

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.”

Social Social Change Humiliate

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“Social change comes through people.”

People Social Social Change

Author:Paul Watson

“The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?”

Social Roles Movement Labor Workers Collectives Social Change Bargaining Labor Movement Collective Bargaining

Author:Andy Stern

“There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.”

Made Hands Individual Social Fairy Social Change

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Social Civilization Capable Reform Rebellion Social Change Social Reform Insisting Executing

Book:The New Meaning of Treason

Source: The New Meaning of Treason

“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.”

Inspirational Littles Past Time Change Born Education Knowing Math Statistics Not Knowing Social Change Here And There Little Time Change Management Certain Knowledge

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.”

Social Water Reactions Thrown Social Change Irreversible Sodium

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.”

Social Effort Class Middle Revolution Middle Class Social Change Social Revolution Disenfranchised

Author:Faye Wattleton

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

Ifs World Want Art Helping Shows Artist Social Change Break Society Function Truthful Decay Social Change Being Truthful

Book:The necessity of art: a Marxist approach

Source: The necessity of art: a Marxist approach

“Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.”

People Mean Action Social Numbers Leader Conditions Movement Hero Hollywood Favors Versions Conquer Ignored Social Change Spurs Large Numbers Social Conditions

Author:Patricia Hill Collins

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