Gordon Gee Quotes

Ordinary people can bring about change.

We the people are the change makers.

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

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing.

If we don't heal our own hood, who will?

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

Democracy is built from the bottom up, one step at a time.

Democracy, in any active sense, begins and ends in communities small enough for their members to meet face to face.

People say that the government should be doing this Yeah, but the government is not doing this. So we do.

… the most powerful weapon that we have our command to-day is public opinion. Statesmen quail before it and it could move mountains!

what I love about city government is that the citizens can create whatever kind of city they're willing to build.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

When I can, I enjoy working with local people to involve everyone in the community in changing their environment.

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

It's important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.

I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether it's organizing against big factories polluting their air or against big banks corrupting our economy and political system.