Mary Hansen Quotes

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

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

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

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

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

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

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.

Changing communities and changing our country is going to last a lot longer than how many footballs you catch or how many touchdowns you make.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.