Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

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

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

Real progress comes from people.

Social change comes through people.

The progress of society depends on nothing more than the exposure of time-honored abuses.

The Socialist movement, the Labour movement, call it which you will, and the Women’s movement, are but different aspects of the same great force which has been, all through the ages, gradually pushing its way upwards, making for the reconstruction and regeneration of Society.

What makes Progressives is their confidence in Progress.