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Change happens at the level
of the individual
-- Scilla
Elworthy Real
change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in
a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having
fresh visions of the future.
-- Scilla
Elworthy | When
faced with world problems – like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the
arms trade – you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of “Help!
What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?” Take heart. That’s a sane
response. It’s the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change
at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change
in huge world systems.
-- Scilla
Elworthy
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“News reports can overwhelm
us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense
that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive
level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration
tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And
somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening
diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a
girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.”
-- Ralph
Fiennes |
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All
who think cannot but see there is a sanction like
that of religion which binds us in partnership in
the serious work of the world.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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"We
also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness
and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable
to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest
lesson of all."
-- John Hope Franklin
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"You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model
that makes the old one obsolete."
-- R.
Buckminster Fuller |  |
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"I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner,
wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job
is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done."
-- Woody
Guthrie | I
am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still
I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse
to do the something that I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale A
single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no
mountain that can't move.
-- Robert M. Hensel
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"We cannot
close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people
are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently
from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life
with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation
someone would help us."
~ Angelina
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"What the people
want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise."
-- Barbara
Jordan |
I long
to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble
tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
-- Helen
Keller |  |
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will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change
a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written
the history of this generation."
-- Robert
F. Kennedy |
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I
do believe there is enormous possibility to change
this world.
-- Nicole
Kidman
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things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made,
and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives."
-- John Legend |
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needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call
before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that
need to happen.
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