Ram Dass Quotes

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.

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.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.

I have people who want to pull me into specific projects in the community based on my music and on the mixtapes. It's like, it's the truth but I'm not trying to preach to you. Because who am I to say what's really right or wrong, or whether what I say is going to change anything? I don't take it too seriously; it's really whimsical.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

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

Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.

Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.

I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.