Samantha Power Quotes

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Social change comes not only from the courtroom, but from talking to the media.

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

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

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

We are here to make another world.

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

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I want to be an activist professor.