Bill Drayton Quotes

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

A unicorn is a community that's positively impacted the lives of a billion people.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

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.

No emancipation without that of society.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Perhaps our generation … will live to reflect … that our hard times were not in vain. They should make us more conscious of the conditions which we wish to eradicate.

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

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.

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.

If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.

We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.

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

Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

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

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.

Anyone can change the world however they want for the better!