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.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.
Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they’re not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.
The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change.
Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.
Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.
The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn’t exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.
I think no matter how you think about your music, you’re ultimately in the music ‘business.’ I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal… is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn’t mean that can’t turn a profit.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
I came up in a time where the assumption was, in the ’60s and ’70s, where the federal government was a great agent of progressive social change, it was the intervener in the best sense, and it would come and address injustice forthrightly.
I’ve worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I’ve been very moved by both the pace of social change there – the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land – and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
People like me in the entertainment industry can contribute to social change through our work.
I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.
I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
If we took the passion and the conviction that the activist trans community has and we combined it with this over-the-top marketable charisma of drag, I feel like if we worked together, we could really effect major social change and world change.
Everyone says you’ve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Films can’t change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn’t work this time, you can try again on the next production.
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit – audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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