One should be cautious about "general conceptions." I think a strong case can be made that activism today is as high as ever, perhaps more so, and is also taking new and significant forms. There has never been anything like the international solidarity movements that began to take shape in the 1980s, right in the mainstream, or the global justice movements that have become a very powerful force in later years. It's true that the society is highly atomized, which does induce a sense of hopelessness often - quite mistakenly I think.
Information consists of differences that make a difference.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world.
A totally new era in the history of mankind.
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.
A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.
The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.
I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.
I left my mark on that man.
Incremental change does not change lives.
It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
Make a difference no matter what role you play
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.
You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
