Bill Clinton Quotes

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

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

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

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

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

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'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.

I believe the people of Compton are ready for change. They've spoken. Their voice has clearly been heard that they don't want to go backward. They want to go forward.

We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

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.

We wanted to bring attention to the fact that we had so many deals taking place that we could have made change for the better for all people, and we felt that we would be a catalyst to bring this to attention to society.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

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

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.