DeRay Mckesson Quotes

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

You get few chances to make really transformational institutional change.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion.

You don't change the course of the country in twenty-four hours.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

The sudden political revolutions which strike the historian most forcibly are often the least important. The great revolutions are those of manners and thought. The true revolutions, those which transform the destinies of people, are most frequently accomplished so slowly that the historians can hardly point to their beginnings. Scientific revolutions are by far the most important.

You cannot just change regimes; you have to change mindsets.

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

… many think that changes and reforms can take place in a short time. I believe that we always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

There's no cultural revolution by mistake.

I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.