Barack Obama Quotes

Social change comes through people.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

I'm running because we need change.

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

Resistance is the first step to change.

These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.