Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

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.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

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

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.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

My duty is to raise the consciousness of the American people.

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

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

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

People have to know that when momentum for a national movement has to be built, basic things have to be talked about first.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

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.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.