Sheryl WuDunn Quotes

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential ... A vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person.

Public opinion is always in advance of the law.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction.

We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and legal institutions from the bonds which hold a tight grip on us although they are incompatible with the needs of our century.

We should put this one-man show behind us. Instead of talking about individuals we should at last be talking about institutions and laws.

An idea consisting of a social crime in one age becomes the very religion of humanity in the next

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.