Social Change Quotes

“I believe in the power of education to transform lives.”

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”

“And is it not time, think you, to do away with this cruel and unjust system?”

“La música es el vehículo perfecto para la conciencia social.”

“Power must be shared, or it will be seized.”

“Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

“I am tired of the old superstitions, the old limitations, the old race and sex lines.”

“I believe that the cinema is one of the most powerful tools for social and political change.”

“The stakes, then, are the redefinition of the social, of cultural, and of the historical from the perspective of a female consciousness, a female subject.”

“Film is a powerful medium for social change.”

“An immodest proposal is one that is not respectable, reasonable, or politically feasible.”

“Art must be an instrument of social progress.”

“Change comes from the bottom up, not the top down.”

“My hope is that we're raising a generation of young men who are going to say, 'I'm not interested in that kind of behavior'.”

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

“I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”

“If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others... the face of society would be speedily changed.”

“Poverty is not a life sentence.”