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  • I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social change I could be, so I try to find different ways to do it and I'm always challenging myself to find new things, learn new instruments. But I always try to find in my heart, what it is I really want to say with words.

    "Reasoning with Michael Franti". Interview with Marlon Regis, jahworks.org.
  • Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

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  • Revolution is but thought carried into action.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria
  • And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

  • The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

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  • The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

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  • Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  • Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

    "Why We Must Unite Against The Unprincipled Speculators". www.businessinsider.com. March 8, 2010.
  • Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.

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  • In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

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  • We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?

    Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.9
  • Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

    Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.

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    Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.
  • Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

  • If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

  • The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

    Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.362, Columbia University Press
  • Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

  • we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe — and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.

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  • I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

    Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
  • Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

    Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr
  • The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

  • Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

    "The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World".
  • For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

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    Source: thepointmag.com
  • When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

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    "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.
  • In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

  • I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

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    "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.
  • There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

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