Social-change Quotes

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with s...

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest on...

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectu...

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...

So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of t...

The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art ...

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christin...

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of ...

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel ...

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid rec...

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they ar...

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Deve...

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unn...

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changi...

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it...

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relat...

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women...

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack coca...

You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.

The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ign...

And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--lettin...

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with ...

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they a...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women...

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system ...