Change Possibility Quotes

Because of my fighting for LGBT rights, I have seen the possibility of change. And that gives me heart to believe that it is possible to effect change.

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.