Tracy Chapman Quotes

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

I'm not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

You can talk about what’s wrong with the world or help fix it.

At some point, Twitter hash tags are not enough. Eventually, you have to stand up.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

Just like so many other people out there, I don't want to sit on the sidelines, I want to do the most that I can to help.

That's what it's all about at the end of the day. What can you do? What difference can you make in the world?

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.

More people should stand up and not be afraid to do things that mean something to them.

It's incredible to be able to make an impact and use the platform that we have in the right way.

The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty... We might not see the return of it, but who knows whose lives we can change by doing those things.