Charles Handy Quotes

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Solutions aren't going to come out of Washington, but leadership can.

If our society is to address social issues, it will be done at the local level or not at all.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it's amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

What does it look like to build a city, state, or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction? To ask this question is the first act of an abolitionist.

I'm convinced democracy will grow from the ground up, from the community.

Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

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

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

Transformed people transform cities.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

The only force strong enough to save our country is us.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!