Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

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.

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

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I'm trying to change the world.

The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

[T]he great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment.

We have gone about as far as good will and even good legislation will take us.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

A very great percentage of our people see only from $200 to $600 cash in hand during the course of a year, and many, many others have incomes under $1000 or ranging from $1000 to $2000 a year. This problem involves so many people that we cannot just say "Let the government solve it." We, as a people, must solve it by deciding on the type of social and economic philosophy which we wish to see established in this country. When we know what changes we want, we can then set government machinery to work to accomplish them, but the people themselves must know what it is they wish to do.

What makes Progressives is their confidence in Progress.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

In order to make the changes work, the majority of members of society that has entered into the changes must wake up every morning with a feeling of the great historical moment, with the feeling of something big and extraordinary.

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of ants.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

I believe the people of Compton are ready for change. They've spoken. Their voice has clearly been heard that they don't want to go backward. They want to go forward.