Bill Drayton Quotes

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

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

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

I see problems that can be fixed because I see solutions that are actually occurring.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.

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

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.