Ted Kulongoski Quotes

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

All power lays in the people!

People say that the government should be doing this Yeah, but the government is not doing this. So we do.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

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

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

We're prepared to place our trust in the people to reshape the government. Our liberal friends place their trust in the government to reshape the people.

Governments are sails, the people is the wind, the state is the boat, and time is the sea.

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

Public policies in our democracy are eventually a reflection of public opinion," so public opinion must be reshaped if we are to avoid disaster.

Many women feel that they are so unimportant that their action can count little for good or ill, but it is the mass of individuals that makes up public opinion and public opinion is what runs a democracy!

You know the voice of the people is a very, very powerful tool.