Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

We are all connected, and we are all One.

A youth is capable of bringing things together and changing the direction too. They can come together and bring changes. There is no need of breaking anything, but need is to bring changes.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.'

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.