Eric Garcetti Quotes

I believe the people of Compton are ready for change. They've spoken. Their voice has clearly been heard that they don't want to go backward. They want to go forward.

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.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

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.

We the people are the change makers.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

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

If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that's constructive.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

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.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.

I'm convinced democracy will grow from the ground up, from the community.

I know it's very comfortable to sit at home and stay with your family, kids and friends and not worry about anything. But with the platform we have we should be the people that scream at the social issues and put them out there so as a society we can move forward.

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people. My older sister would be part of youth organizing, and she'd have dance parties. People would be dancing and talking about how to improve their neighborhood.

You know, some things you can't change, but you can start from the youth to change the future.

Every one of us must do something to contribute to transforming our community for the better.