Zal Batmanglij Quotes

If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

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

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

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.

No matter how many shows or how much work we do, we are not going to make a difference. It's only the masses that will make a difference.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

Some people are diplomatic, some people are outspoken, but the next generation is very clear. People are speaking their mind out. People are worried about other things besides their own careers. It's not accurate to say that they don't speak out.

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

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

I'd already been doing work in the community... But when it comes to how to actually amplify your voice, when I saw what Colin Kaepernick did and the amount of coverage and conversation around it, that's when I truly realized how much influence we have as athletes.

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

There's a world to save. Don't let anybody tell you you can't change the world. You can, and you have a moral responsibility to try.

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

I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.