When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too.
– Bayard Rustin
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
– Lucius Gary
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
– Douglas Noel Adams
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
– Maggie Roche
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
– Robert Frost
Why are we so afraid of Change? The only thing that is constant in the Creation of Reality is CHANGE!
– Gordana Biernat
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
– Dr. Dale E. Turner
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
– Frank Herbert
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
– Barbara Hall
Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
– Andre Gide
Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.
– "Malcom X" ( 1964), The Atobiograghy of Malcom X
you are who you are and no one can change that. so be yourself because no one can do it better.
– Meylin D. Bojorge
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
– Plato
You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both.
– Kenneth Cole, fashion show speech
You can still make today the day you change yourself. It's never too late!
– Steve Maraboli
You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it.
– Emma Bunton
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
– Brian Tracy
You might have developed capacities to lead yourself effectively, and developed the competencies in adapting to change and making effective decisions, but leading and influencing others can be a totally different experience.…the led reserves the right of followership! …the decision to follow you or not is theirs!~Adesiji Rabiu
– Alvin Toffler
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.
– James Arthur Baldwin
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.
– Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
