Francis Escudero Quotes

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

I always go back to the fact that one man can make a difference. No matter what the issue, we always have the power to change it.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

The goal of Can't Do Nothing is to ask people, what matters for you? And whatever it is, what are you doing about it? How bad does it need to get before you take action?

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.