Quotes tagged ‘Social Change’

“Hauss also stressed that her art is a sincere expression of herself – 'We’re too often perceived as something we’re not, and the best way to change that is to actually show ourselves, make ourselves be seen, be heard.'”

— Giedrė Vaičiulaitytė , Bored Panda, boredpanda.com

“The military wasn't designed to be a unit of social change. Problem with that is, that's what they were saying about me 50 years ago. Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it.”

— Peter Parnell, Aaron Sorkin, Patrick Caddell, Percy Fitzwallace, John Amos, imdb.com

“Love and voting are the only two things that will solve this.”

— David Hogg, twitter.com

“Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com

“I know that the Union is stronger a thousand times than all the wild and chimerical schemes of social change which are generated one after another in the unstable minds of visionary sophists and interested agitators.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may af…”

— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com

“Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. Only love can give us the strength to go forward in the midst of heartbreak and misery. Only love can give us the power to reconcile, to redeem, the power to renew weary spirits and save lost souls. The tra…”

— Bell Hooks, amazon.com

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and…”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“Don’t ridicule, organize.”

— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info

“Only an aroused public can end this folly before it ends us.”

— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info

“Influencers are going to start disappearing. Brands are going to start realizing the amount of followers you have doesn’t mean shit. Just because photos look good and have 200,000 followers means nothing. You can’t rely on content creators all day long.”

— Anonymous, digiday.com

“There is little historical evidence to suggest that any form of radical art has produced a discernible political or social effectivity. In saying this, I have no wish to marginalize radical or avant-garde art any more than it has already marginalized itself, but I do wish to question the claims that…”

— John Fiske, amazon.com