Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

I hope that people understand in order for things to change in our country, we all have to come together and do it together.

We have to unite. We have to unify and make a change.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Reform always disappoints.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

Central to our identity as Catholics is that we are called to be leaven for transforming the world, agents for bringing about a kingdom of love and justice.

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.