Yuri Kochiyama Quotes

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

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

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

Reform starts here.

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

It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system. -- With this in view I have taken as impulses, instincts, or needs certain driving forces in the human species as we know it at present, and argued for such social and economic changes as will give them new, free, and varied expression. To take even this first step towards a happy society is a herculean task. After it has been accomplished, generations to come will see what the creature [us] will do next. We none of us know; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.

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

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

I think people are really talking about it. Having conversations about how to make change.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

If you want change, it has to be generational.