Bill Drayton Quotes

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

My rule is always, People first and things second.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

In a world of hate, love is the revolution.

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

People are more important than things.

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

Speaking of important things, there are so many battles right now that people are fighting for that it's overwhelming, but I am always in favor of people who crusade for the sake of people's hearts and their well-being. That is what is important.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.