Hill Harper Quotes

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

I was in 'Fiesta,' but only because Aaliyah said she wanted me to do it that way.

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

I have people who want to pull me into specific projects in the community based on my music and on the mixtapes. It's like, it's the truth but I'm not trying to preach to you. Because who am I to say what's really right or wrong, or whether what I say is going to change anything? I don't take it too seriously; it's really whimsical.

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.

We started thinking if we can have more people involved instead of less people involved, wouldn't that be a good thing?

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.