Ursula Burns Quotes

We are here to make another world.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

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

Social change comes through people.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

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.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

We can all become activists and raise questions.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.