Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Marian Wright Edelman

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they're never caught up with. And some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

Mikhail Gorbachev

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

Nathaniel Branden

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Mo Johnston

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]

Mo Ibrahim

The mobile industry changed Africa.

R. D. Laing

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Princess Diana

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Publilius Syrus

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

Publilius Syrus

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Publilius Syrus

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Pope Paul VI

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Nelson Mandela

The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition.

Nelson Mandela

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Nelson Mandela

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Margaret Atwood

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

Kenny Rogers

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.