Howard Zinn Quotes

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

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

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.