Samantha Power Quotes

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

I am passionate about human rights.

Children change you. They really do.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

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.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

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

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

Being a mum changed me for the better.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

I consider myself a social justice person.

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.