Margaret Halsey Quotes

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

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

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

No matter how many shows or how much work we do, we are not going to make a difference. It's only the masses that will 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.

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system.  Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.

During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.

Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless- you should not feel that way. We should make an effort.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.