Cathy Freeman Quotes

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.

What did you do to change the world today?

I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

If you empower women, you can change the world.

I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.

There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.

I like many Americans are frustrated by a lot of things in the world and I would like to be a part of the dialogue moving forward to make this a better world for everyone.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

There's a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can't identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.