Bill Shorten Quotes

Create power for the powerless.

The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.

My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

The Model Sanctuary is not about self-indulgence - it's about reminding and allowing them to become self-sufficient human beings. I wanted to alert people to the fact that we're not the victims, but nor are we the villains. We want fair practice and positive, sustainable change, working with the fashion industry, not against it.

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

... a legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women—with men relating to that the best they can.

Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding.