Dorothy Day Quotes

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

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

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

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.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

I'm trying to change the world.

I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

… we should remember that the real power behind international as well as national progress towards better conditions is public opinion

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

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

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

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

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

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

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