Henry A. Wallace Quotes

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

I'm ready for a different America.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

There is this constant effort to progress in America, to make things better for everyone.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

That’s one of the wonders of this country. Eventually, we live up to our ideals.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

Change takes courage.

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of ants.