Octavia Spencer Quotes

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

To see that I have this huge platform now, and so many people are listening to what I have to say, it really makes me want to orientate toward something that would really educate people, create awareness, do something more than just show them a cute outfit or what I'm having for lunch.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

I want to be an activist professor.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it.

I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

We're told, 'If you want to change the world, vote.' And really, if you want to change the world, there's a lot more things that you can do.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.